[SOLVED]transfering savegame from steam cloud to local

[bunny de fluff]

If I enabled steam cloud in the settings and then saved the game, is it possible to transfer my savegames to local pc later? Thanks.

[The BlackVision]

Before starting out, firstly, never delete or 'cut, paste' the original files that steam uses - it'll make steam throw a hissy fit if you ever switch it back or start a fresh install, etc and the game can easily fall into a loop of 'your save files are corrupt'
(Don't worry, they're not, it just means you messed up what steam does with them; just whatever you do, don't hit the 'delete my profile' option it offers should this happen!)


In your documents on your computer, create a file with exactly the name 'Renowned Explorers International Society'. Inside that, create folders for 'userdata' and 'savedata' and put the relevant files in each.

This should end up with a pathway looking like: "C:\Users\(your name)\Documents\Renowned Explorers International Society"

The steam cloud saves are stored locally - if you have them saved, they're somewhere like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Renowned Explorers\Data (this may not be exact, I'm doing this from memory, but if you see a bunch of save data, you're in the right place).

The problem, however, is that Steam doesn't use a sensible file structure for game saves. Meaning that when you save locally, it normally seperates the data files into folders for 'userdata' and 'saves' (like the ones we just created). Steam does not do this, meaning if you want to seperate them out, you need to know which files go in 'userdata' and which go in 'saves' to convert them to local saves.

Fortunately, this is easy - the only file that goes in 'userdata' is 'settings.ini'. Everything else goes in 'savedata' apart from the file 'stats', which sits outside of both in the 'Renowned Explorers folder in your documents.

That's it, you should be good to switch to local saves after that...

BUT! Be warned, you need to switch the option for cloud saving off in Steam first, then switch the in-game option off steam cloud saving. Then you should be good to go.


Also, again, I reiterate, never ever delete or edit the files directly in the steam folder - they're your backup in case you do something wrong, and they also contain stuff other than your save files that steam uses directly from there - mess with them and you can break the game and make it a long job to recover it. Play it safe - only ever copy files out of there, and ignore whatever remains once you've got your local saves going.

[bunny de fluff]

Thanks Blackvision. A detailed answer, I am grateful. But unfortunately

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Renowned Explorers\Data

this folder has no savegame. only 3 files in them, and two of them are dlc_001 and dlc 002.
I thought the savegame is in

some drive\Steam\userdate\*steamid*\296970\remote\

I am starting to think that messing with this is a bad idea actually. I turned off steam cloud service long time ago so I think I will just leave everything as it is for now LOL. Thank you again.