Saves transfer between PC and MAC (Steam Cloud)

[wizardexiles]

Today cross-save system was announced between the PC and the new MAC release. Previously I played around 110 hours on PC and want to fetch my saves from Steam Cloud (I already checked - all my saves are there). But I can only start a new game on MAC, even with the enabled "Steam Cloud Saves" option. How can I transfer my savings to Mac, then? I didn't find any official solution to this.

[Azure Fang]

Where was cross save announced? I saw cross play, but not cross save.

[wizardexiles]

Azure Fang님이 먼저 게시:

Where was cross save announced? I saw cross play, but not cross save.

Quote from today's announcement:

"No Man’s Sky for Mac is free to millions of players who already own the game on Steam. And for users who use both PC and Mac, cross save is supported between both systems, allowing players to jump from a PC to a Mac laptop, or from a Mac mini to Mac Studio."

[Azure Fang]

Ah, thank you, I missed that part.

[Chance]

Looks like cross save from PC -> Mac is broken for everyone- there are posts on reddit about it too. Both my PC and Mac both say enabled / synced, but I have 200MB+ stored in the cloud for PC NMS saves in properties and 0 stored when I check properties on mac.

I went ahead and copied my save folder from PC as a backup in case the 0 on my Mac overwrites my PC save when this is fixed, but it sure would be swell if it worked. I need my 500+ hours worth of stuff :P

[Pagafyr]

I'm glad I saved my games before this upgrade and turned off Cloud Saves. Now it says I have zero bytes, saved and the whole amount available on Cloud for saving the game.

[Guyver8]

Chance님이 먼저 게시:

Looks like cross save from PC -> Mac is broken for everyone

apparently NOT everyone
https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/3839927819748940879/

[tarasis]

Not working for me atm, Mac is reporting Unable to Sync.

[Roy_PA-US]

Same issue .. :(

[wizardexiles]

I started a new game and made an autosave, then logged off. After that, a Steam client offered to override my current save with cloud data, and it didn't succeed - my cloud saves still didn't show up.

[Captain.Jartyk]

regarding the sync of the save files between pc-mac, I saw something in a thread on reddit earlier today.

a clip from the thread on reddit

if you want saves to sync properly, update the PC version first and resave all your saves, then make sure the updated saves get uploaded to the Steam cloud.

Because there seems to be a bug on Mac Steam where it doesn't download the saves properly, but lets you play the game anyways. So if you then play the game, and it resaves, then the updated (corrupt) saves get uploaded, the next time you play on PC it can overwrite your local saves with the corrupt saves...

link to that thread on reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoMansSkyTheGame/comments/13xrd2k/i_didnt_even_have_to_rebuy_it_thanks_hg/

[wizardexiles]

I sold my PC a few years ago, using only Mac since then. Even if I had a PC, what is the point of playing it on a Mac? I thought, finally, I could play at least one decent game on Mac, but it looks nope. I don't want to restart everything from the beginning.

[tarasis]

wizardexiles님이 먼저 게시:

I sold my PC a few years ago, using only Mac since then. Even if I had a PC, what is the point of playing it on a Mac? I thought, finally, I could play at least one decent game on Mac, but it looks nope. I don't want to restart everything from the beginning.

Not an ideal solution, but you could use GeForce Now for a month (can't remeber if there is a trial), and open the game there and let it save new versions of your save and try that.

I do have GeForce Now and am about to try the trick to see if it works, it depends on whether GFN has updated to latest PC version yet.

[tarasis]

Followup - yup after loading my old save in No Man's Sky (GFN), and resaving, it now appears to have synced to my Mac version. The three other saves didn't (older backup copy of main save, a creative and an aborted normal save).

Just checked, there is a free tier for GeForce Now, so Wizardexiles you should be able to use that to open your old save, resave and make use of your save.

[r3dfear777]

tarasis님이 먼저 게시:

Followup - yup after loading my old save in No Man's Sky (GFN), and resaving, it now appears to have synced to my Mac version. The three other saves didn't (older backup copy of main save, a creative and an aborted normal save).

Just checked, there is a free tier for GeForce Now, so Wizardexiles you should be able to use that to open your old save, resave and make use of your save.

Can confirm that this works!
Opened the GFN (you can do it without a subscription, you would just need to wait about 15 minutes or so), loaded the last save, resaved it and quit the game to the desktop (to sync with steam cloud).
After this, the save appeared on my mac!

Thanks tarasis, for the advice :)

[wizardexiles]

Yeah, I tried the same - it worked out for me. But most interesting, I found that FPS in GFN is much better than my Mac version, so in that unordinary way, I surprisingly got my ultimate sub for GFN, lol.