how to fix steam was unable to sync your files witcher 3

[Tylermcd93]

Someone please help me. I've searched if anyone has had a similar problem with Witcher 3 and didn't find anything that helped. I am not well versed when it comes to steam settings and whatnot, but I keep getting this message "Steam was unable to synce your save games for the witcher 3". I have two seperate desktops in to different locations that I regularly use so Cloud saves are convenient for me. I've never had this happen before though and I do not want to lose any progress. I have had games ask me if I would like to overwrite local files with cloud files but it doesn't even ask me that. I have tried restarting steam (and my pc when that didn't work) and still no dice. I have verified cache integrity but that didn't do anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated and thank you in advance.

[Aib]

Same issue, and happened probably at the same time - about 30-40 minutes ago

[Aib]

Ok, here how I've fixed it on my machine. Not sure that current solution will help anyone else:
- In Steam\SteamApps\common\The Witcher 3\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2012\ folder run vcredist_x64.exe (I have x64 machine). On the popup screen, clicked "repair". Rebooted.

[Tylermcd93]

Originally posted by Aib:

Ok, here how I've fixed it on my machine. Not sure that current solution will help anyone else:
- In Steam\SteamApps\common\The Witcher 3\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2012\ folder run vcredist_x64.exe (I have x64 machine). On the popup screen, clicked "repair". Rebooted.

It didn't work but thanks for trying.

[rcole_sooner]

My TW3 syncs did not work all Saturday/Sunday ... but started working fine on Monday.

I think it was something with the servers.

Other syncs were working fine, just not TW3.

[dr_erickson]

Steam Cloud synchronization is inconsistent at best. Having to wait "a few days" for it to catch up is not pleasant. Hope this gets addressed, Steam.

[green.finch]

This has happened to me lots. To fix it, right click the game in your library. Select properties then local files then verify integrity of game cache. This will fix the problem and sync your local files with steam.

[drsunnyk]

Originally posted by Aib:

Ok, here how I've fixed it on my machine. Not sure that current solution will help anyone else:
- In Steam\SteamApps\common\The Witcher 3\_CommonRedist\vcredist\2012\ folder run vcredist_x64.exe (I have x64 machine). On the popup screen, clicked "repair". Rebooted.

Thank you so much! My game stopped loading after after "sync" due to an automatic windows 10 update (last thing that happened to the machine so i'm blaming it). This did the job. I have no idea what an x64 machine is (64bit OS perhaps? - not familiar with lingo), but it appears I have one too. I've tried 10+ other things from this and other posts/youtube including deleting and reinstalling the entire game. No reboot was required.

I'm a PS4/Xbox 360 console and Mac guy who has recently started gaming on a home built PC. I have to say that one advantage of a console is not having to spend 3+ frustrating hrs -that I could be gaming- hunting down the reason why the game that worked flawlessly yesterday has decided to longer work today;-)

[HoboM]

Originally posted by green.finch:

This has happened to me lots. To fix it, right click the game in your library. Select properties then local files then verify integrity of game cache. This will fix the problem and sync your local files with steam.

This fixed it for me. Now downloading 15 additional files at 3.3 GB. Hopefully will be able to launch.

[JJOliver]

Hi! I am late to the party but people are still having this issue. This is for people who have no save files due to steam not syncing their cloud saves once they have reinstalled or reformatted their PC.
If no other fix worked for you - it may be because of Onedrive. If you had Onedrive syncing desktop/my docs etc. it can have a corrupt Witcher 3 file in your documents folder (check it). If corrupt it will be a blank white icon with The Witcher 3 name, and the type will be "file". Go to your onedrive folder and delete it. Then run W3 through steam and it will load your cloud saves again.

[Iokanaan]

Since this is (one of) the first post(s) that shows up when googling for "witcher 3 steam cloud sync", I'll add another solution that just helped me out: after the Next-Gen Update, I reinstalled TW3, but kept getting the error, despite trying out all of the above suggestions.

It turned out, I had installed the game on another drive. After moving the installation, everything worked perfectly fine again.

[Witcher]

Originally posted by green.finch:

This has happened to me lots. To fix it, right click the game in your library. Select properties then local files then verify integrity of game cache. This will fix the problem and sync your local files with steam.

this will kill all mods though which is a PITA to re-install