Why save files won't sync (not OneDrive) BETHESDA READ THIS SO YOU CAN REPRO IT

[Opulent Stone]

It's because your Documents folder isn't on the C drive.

If your documents folder is set to another drive e.g. D, your Oblivion folder will be D:\users\YOURNAME\documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames\ folder there with saves_meta.sav and steam_autocloud.vdf files.

But take a look in C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered\Saved\SaveGames.

That's where all your character's save files are.

Steam syncs the save files in D, not C, because you configured your files that way. That's why this is happening

Workaround: manually transfer the C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\My Games\Oblivion Remastered to the other PC. Now I have my save files on both PCs, but I do need to manually do it each time.

Fix for Bethesda to implement: Please just have it all go into the player's default documents folder rather than hard-coding it to write to C drive -> Documents.

[Bill.N]

The OneDrive solution that people are throwing around is because that is the major case for this issue and it's what is helping the most people. That said, you're correct to say that isn't the only way to be impacted by this. What is happening is that the developers are hard-coding the location of the Documents folder where they should asking for the location from the OS. This is what it is supposed to be doing and, more importantly, this is what Steam is doing, so if your Documents folder is anywhere but the default location, you're going to have an issue with Steam not matching the game.

That said, the solution people are giving for OneDrive would work regardless of where your Documents folder is located. You just need to move the contents of the save location the game is creating to where ever you Documents folder is, then create a symbolic link from your Documents folder to the default location where the game is writing to.

[Opulent Stone]

Originally posted by Bill.N:

What is happening is that the developers are hard-coding the location of the Documents folder where they should asking for the location from the OS. This is what it is supposed to be doing and, more importantly, this is what Steam is doing, so if your Documents folder is anywhere but the default location, you're going to have an issue with Steam not matching the game.

That is absolutely not what it is supposed to be doing because no other game I own does that. Even old Oblivion syncs correctly. Everything goes into the Documents folder on D that I've configured, except this game.

EDIT: well, it's "supposed" to be doing that in the sense that it's doing what it's been hard-coded to do. It's just confusing and unlike any other game that I've played on Steam (that supports Steam cloud - I'm looking at you DS3)

[Bill.N]

Originally posted by Opulent Stone:

That is absolutely not what it is supposed to be doing because no other game I own does that. Even old Oblivion syncs correctly. Everything goes into the Documents folder on D that I've configured, except this game.

I think my phrasing was poor and led to some confusion. When I said "This is what it is supposed to be doing," I meant the second part of the prior sentence. That it, it's supposed to be asking for the location of the Document folder from Windows and writing there.

[Opulent Stone]

Originally posted by Bill.N:

Originally posted by Opulent Stone:

That is absolutely not what it is supposed to be doing because no other game I own does that. Even old Oblivion syncs correctly. Everything goes into the Documents folder on D that I've configured, except this game.

I think my phrasing was poor and led to some confusion. When I said "This is what it is supposed to be doing," I meant the second part of the prior sentence. That it, it's supposed to be asking for the location of the Document folder from Windows and writing there.

Oh I see, that makes sense.

[Puggelicious]

Has anyone found a fix for this. I litterally just went out and bought a ROG Ally X for nothing :(

[Opulent Stone]

Originally posted by Puggelicious:

Has anyone found a fix for this. I litterally just went out and bought a ROG Ally X for nothing :(

What's your setup on your PC? Do you have your documents folder on C drive or somewhere else on your desktop? I assume your Asus device has it on C?

[Jamfero]

Thanks for the help, This set me on the right path to get my xbox game pass save on steam.

Problem I had was my documents was saved to go to one drive so I uninstalled one drive and it was still there what I ended up needing to do was open CMD > Powershell and redirected my document to be local only I asked ChatGPT the commands and it gave me the following;


# Define correct local Documents path
$localPath = "$env:USERPROFILE\Documents"

# Registry paths for known folders
$regPathUserShell = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders"
$regPathShell = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders"

# Fix the 'Documents' folder in both registry keys
Set-ItemProperty -Path $regPathUserShell -Name "Personal" -Value $localPath
Set-ItemProperty -Path $regPathShell -Name "Personal" -Value $localPath

# Restart Explorer to apply the change
Stop-Process -Name explorer -Force



After the restart of file explorer my documents was corrected and the save file in steam directory went from a .vdf to .sav I then went and got Python installed and ran XGP Save Extractor to convert my gamepass saves into .sav and just slapped them into the save location on steam.


Unsure if this will help people because everyones system is different the errors are different for other people but if someone is having the same issue I had this was the easiest way to convert saves.

Just a warning that whatever is saved on onedrive and NOT your documents when you change the pathing everything that is not saved locally in your documents will be deleted until you resync Onedrive.

♥♥♥♥ Microsoft & ♥♥♥♥ Onedrive

[Opulent Stone]

Originally posted by Jamfero:

Thanks for the help, This set me on the right path to get my xbox game pass save on steam.

Problem I had was my documents was saved to go to one drive so I uninstalled one drive and it was still there what I ended up needing to do was open CMD > Powershell and redirected my document to be local only I asked ChatGPT the commands and it gave me the following;

Registry editing is a bit overkill compared to symlinking, but I'm glad that you found a solution and I respect the choice of wanting to obliterate OneDrive's existence