Save File Deleted

[Syren Neostar]

Unfortunately I have opened my game to find my save file (saved in slot one) is completely gone. I am level 260ish and would prefer not to start over, just to have it happen again.

The main issue is that the game crashes my entire computer if I use the Gem Combiner program with it for too long. I assume that this corrupted my save, but I feel it shouldn't have. I do have a friend who had this happen and he never has used the gem combiner.

I have checked online and there are at least two ways to potentially get at least some of my progress back:
Go to the file location, Right click the save file and then "Restore Previous Versions,
or to try deleting the current save file there and see if Steam will re-sync it.

I am very hesitant to try much of anything.

I am running Windows 7 64-bit.

Let me know if you need anymore details but for now I am not going to touch the game just to be safe.

[Warlok]

Welcome to my club! I suffered this long ago. I am hoping since I am no longer alone that the next GemCraft might feature a new savegame/profile redundancy safeguard... :)

[Ai]

I heard steam cloud can sometime does this for a small handful of games, not sure if it's true of not since it's so rare and hard to confirm.

It seems extremely rare but i also had times that i lost my saves form other games too. (Or reverted to a old save, this is why i suspect steam cloud might be an issue.)

Ever since turning steam cloud off, i don't think i ever lost a save after that, unless it's a game in EA...or a mistake in the game save system.

I don't think Gem Combiner was the cause of the save lost, all it does is execute macros.
However maybe the game crashed while trying to save, corrupting it.

Speaking of save safeguard, i think an older GC game let you save with a string of text you could copy and paste, it might be a good way to backup saves.

[Syren Neostar]

Thank you. I do know that Kongregate uses the text string to save your data, which of course can be copied and saved. I may have to try turning off the steam cloud, thanks again!

[Grimer Cape]

Same thing here. After a round was completed (the screen was showing the map, the game was adding skill points for a newly completed level), everything froze. The only thing I could do was a hard reset, which wiped the save file. Level 800+, a couple of 100lv fragments,\, lacked only 30-something achievements - I know those are only to farm skill points and steam saves them anyway but it was way easier to keep track this way. Save was on cloud. Any way to restore this or do I need to start over?

[SilentDeath777]

I miss my lvl 1,4 k savegame that i had.

[Warlok]

From the frequency of posts on this subject, this must thankfully be a rare yet deeply ingrained possibility.

Again, condolences. Only a game, yet much, much time...

So far along, I wonder what the next GemCraft might hold (in general); hopefully some new fundamentals. And/or an interesting online cooperative... greater strategic-level meta?... .

:O

:)