Edited: (SOLVED) No cloud saves?

[Allgood Prime]

I was playing on my desktop but decided to move over to my laptop. When I exited the game it states cloud syncing but when I start the game on my laptop it doesn't download the save file. Both my desktop and laptop have cloud saving enabled (in Steam settings and in the games property settings).

Edit and temp fix until Bethesda actually addresses this:

Found the issue. The cloud saving is working but it's using OneDrive.

The game looks for saves in;

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames

But the cloud save goes into;

C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames

You will need to MANUALLY copy and paste from the OneDrive folder into the games save folder.

I hope this helps.

[[PPG] Tripod]

Nguyên văn bởi Butt Stallion:

You can avoid the hassle of manually copying, by creating a symlink between the wrong folder and the correct one. It only requires a few extra steps after manually copying the saves. And no, you don't need to disable OneDrive. The fact that "lol just disable OneDrive" is being suggested as a fix is asinine.

First, copy the saves from Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames, and move them to the Users\{USERNAME}\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames folder. This part is already outlined in your above solution.

Second, delete the Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames folder that the game is incorrectly saving to. Yes, really. Delete it. This won't work if that incorrect folder still exists.

Third, hit your Windows key, type "cmd" into the search, and run Command Prompt as an administrator. You have to run it as admin, or else this next part won't work.

Finally, type the following into Command Prompt, replacing "{USERNAME}" in both file paths with your appropriate folder name for your Windows user:

mklink /D “C:\Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames” “C:\Users\{USERNAME}\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames”

Since you should never run random code that someone on the internet tells you to run, you can google "mklink Windows" if you want more info... The short story is that mklink tells Windows to create a symbolic link. /D tells it that you're linking a directory (folder), not just a single file. Then the first filepath is what you're creating the link from. The second filepath is what you're creating the link to.

When you hit Enter, cmd should tell you that a symbolic link was created between the first and second folders. And you're done! If you get an error, it's because you either A: didn't delete that original folder, or B: didn't run cmd as administrator.

This will create a symlink between the wrong folder and the correct one. This symlink means that when the game goes to save to the wrong folder, Windows will internally redirect it to the correct one; The game doesn't know any difference, because Windows handles the symlink without any input from the game. So the game thinks the game has been successfully saved (in the wrong folder) when it actually got redirected to the correct folder instead. And similarly, when the game goes to look for your saves, it will automatically be redirected to your OneDrive folder instead. You can verify it worked by going back to the original (wrong) "C:\Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved" location, and you should see a shortcut icon pointing to the correct SaveGames folder instead.

You'll want to do this on every OneDrive machine that you plan on booting the game with. It doesn't need to be done on a Steam Deck, because that doesn't natively use OneDrive. Oh, and your newly copied cloud saves won't actually update and push to the cloud until you actually launch and close the game again. Steam only checks for changes when the game closes, so you'll need to launch and close the game again if you plan on playing on your Steam Deck.

Excellent, works perfectly.
Thank you!!!!

I can now jump from PC to deck and back again.

[Chipsinka]

This helped! You, dude, are a hero. Thank you so much

[CrusaderDogger]

Nguyên văn bởi Hyperbolics:

Nguyên văn bởi Atomey:

Developers hardcoded the path to go to C:\Users\youruser\Documents instead of whatever is in the actual setting in Windows. You can check this yourself and compare, lots of cloud-based software can edit this, like OneDrive or Dropbox so your user profile files are synced with your cloud.

To check open powershell and run:
[Environment]::GetFolderPath("MyDocuments")

That's where Bethesda should be storing save games, not a hard coded path on C.

This helped me get a true fix for the cloud save issue.

It may not work for everyone but chances are if you ever had OneDrive enabled this may help.

On my laptop I went and checked the default pathing for Documents with PowerShell saw that it was indeed set to a OneDrive\Documents pathing and changed it.

So to change your pathing:

Open OneDrive > Settings > Sync and Backup > Manage Backup > Disable Documents Backup

Now that that is done:

Open File Explorer > Right Click Documents > Properties > Location

In Location if you checked on PowerShell or here it will have your OneDrive Documents as the default path instead of your local drive.

So either restore default and merge or move scroll down to your local drive, find your user name, documents and select it and merge.

Now you can successfully just disable/unlink the dumpster fire that is OneDrive and never look back.

Thanks Brother

[Dagoth Scourge]

is this current and correct info?

[Zeldrath]

I work with OneDrive for a living and I've designed entire systems to circumvent it...

[JustinGlorious]

Turning off OneDrive on the Documents folder may work if you turn it off for My Games or specifically the Oblivion Remaster folder, and then making sure it saves and pulls from the local save is a workaround for now.

[TDK_Pink_Floyd]

For me I can't make a new save I can do a quick save however when I load up the quick save it loads an older save. Does anyone know how to fix this?

[The Roadstar]

Same issue except I'm using Steam Deck and a Windows 11. I have not moved my save game locations. I have to manually copy my save game folder to a flash drive every time I switch platforms to get around this bug.

I don't have this problem with any other game. Count on bethesda. I don't know why they haven't fixed this yet. It should have been a day one patch.

[Butt Stallion]

Nguyên văn bởi The Roadstar:

Same issue except I'm using Steam Deck and a Windows 11. I have not moved my save game locations. I have to manually copy my save game folder to a flash drive every time I switch platforms to get around this bug.

Check my comment (#74) for a more permanent solution. Creating a symlink between the two folders means you don't need to manually copy the files anymore.

[Milk_Provider]

has anyone tried this method from steam deck to windows 10. my original save file is on the deck, i don't mind running it on my deck but i would hate to overwrite it with an empty file from my PC.

[treepop]

Reason #8888888800809890432840923482390 to hate windows and one drive bs bloat. NOBODY WANTS IT!

[Jalar]

Same issue here hope it gets fixed soon. Tried figuring it out but I’m not great at all this stuff so just gotta have 2 different characters till it hopefully gets fixed

[SenpaIDGAF]

I am using a Asus rog ally x to play but when I opened it on my PC tower I don't have any saved files. I wonder if its the same issue?

[ChopZuey]

Nguyên văn bởi Nearaji:

Nguyên văn bởi fdp_san:

Same, the issues seems to come from the fact that I made "MyDocument" point to my F: drive.

This is what I noticed :

My pc saves are located in :
C:\Users\fdpsan\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames

But the one from the deck (synced) are in :
F:\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames

I'm pretty sure the issue is coming from the fact they use

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames to locate the save but Documents is not necessarily at this place.

A quick and dirty fix would be to symlink F:\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames to C:\Users\fdpsan\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames, be sure to backup the saves first.

edit : I confirm that deleting the folder in C: and doing

cd C:\Users\fdpsan\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\

then

mklink /d .\SaveGames "F:\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames"

did the trick

This is the way, except I would add that when you cd into this remove the "SaveGames" folder before running the mklink command (you can also navigate to this via the UI and drag and drop the folder somewhere)

cd C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\

In my case this folder held the Steam Deck saves not the save I made from my PC, which is the file I prefer. If you run into this as well, you can move the named saves (like this "autosave 1 - [Character name]") into the folder you're creating the symlink from (don't move the non named ones as you will override the quicksave which maybe bad in your case, I dunno how you choose to save).

After that I ran

mklink /d .\SaveGames "C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames"

Tested both saving from the Steam Deck then opening on PC and vice versa. Worked perfectly. Thanks man.

How does this work if my other device has a different named path because of that pc name? I guess I'm not understanding how pc 1 connects two separate locations to a totally different pc 2?

[ChopZuey]

Nguyên văn bởi Butt Stallion:

You can avoid the hassle of manually copying, by creating a symlink between the wrong folder and the correct one. It only requires a few extra steps after manually copying the saves. And no, you don't need to disable OneDrive. The fact that "lol just disable OneDrive" is being suggested as a fix is asinine.

First, copy the saves from Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames, and move them to the Users\{USERNAME}\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames folder. This part is already outlined in your above solution.

Second, delete the Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames folder that the game is incorrectly saving to. Yes, really. Delete it. This won't work if that incorrect folder still exists.

Third, hit your Windows key, type "cmd" into the search, and run Command Prompt as an administrator. You have to run it as admin, or else this next part won't work.

Finally, type the following into Command Prompt, replacing "{USERNAME}" in both file paths with your appropriate folder name for your Windows user:

mklink /D “C:\Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames” “C:\Users\{USERNAME}\OneDrive\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames”

Since you should never run random code that someone on the internet tells you to run, you can google "mklink Windows" if you want more info... The short story is that mklink tells Windows to create a symbolic link. /D tells it that you're linking a directory (folder), not just a single file. Then the first filepath is what you're creating the link from. The second filepath is what you're creating the link to.

When you hit Enter, cmd should tell you that a symbolic link was created between the first and second folders. And you're done! If you get an error, it's because you either A: didn't delete that original folder, or B: didn't run cmd as administrator.

This will create a symlink between the wrong folder and the correct one. This symlink means that when the game goes to save to the wrong folder, Windows will internally redirect it to the correct one; The game doesn't know any difference, because Windows handles the symlink without any input from the game. So the game thinks the game has been successfully saved (in the wrong folder) when it actually got redirected to the correct folder instead. And similarly, when the game goes to look for your saves, it will automatically be redirected to your OneDrive folder instead. You can verify it worked by going back to the original (wrong) "C:\Users\{USERNAME}\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved" location, and you should see a shortcut icon pointing to the correct SaveGames folder instead.

You'll want to do this on every OneDrive machine that you plan on booting the game with. It doesn't need to be done on a Steam Deck, because that doesn't natively use OneDrive. Oh, and your newly copied cloud saves won't actually update and push to the cloud until you actually launch and close the game again. Steam only checks for changes when the game closes, so you'll need to launch and close the game again if you plan on playing on your Steam Deck.

"Cannot create a file when that file already exists."

didn't work for me.