I've lost my extensive hollow knight data from the cloud

[Garbage_Collector]

Hey everyone, so it's been over a year since i've played hallow knight. I've switched 100% to Ubuntu Linux (the newest version...) and i've played and everything seems to be fine, except i had gotten 112% and beaten the game several times, and i'm wondering if i can get my save data back. I don't mind doing it all over again since it's such a great game, but i would like to beat absolute radiance and it would be much appreciated if someone new how to fix this.

[Knto]

For some reason the game doesn't sync saves between operative systems, you can force the game to use Proton to get the windows version which should have your save, then you can either stay in that version or copy the file and replace the Linux saves after disabling Proton.

[Perseus]

Originally posted by Konato:

For some reason the game doesn't sync saves between operative systems, you can force the game to use Proton to get the windows version which should have your save, then you can either stay in that version or copy the file and replace the Linux saves after disabling Proton.

It's also possible to download the files from steam cloud directly : https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage/

[Garbage_Collector]

Originally posted by Perseus:

Originally posted by Konato:

For some reason the game doesn't sync saves between operative systems, you can force the game to use Proton to get the windows version which should have your save, then you can either stay in that version or copy the file and replace the Linux saves after disabling Proton.

It's also possible to download the files from steam cloud directly : https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage/

the files between a windows and linux OS do look different...the labels on linux look like:

.config/unity3d/Team Cherry/Hollow Knight/user1.dat

with windows:

Team Cherry/Hollow Knight/user1.dat

however, the file is always just user1.dat, so i'm going to try putting the one from windows where the current user1.dat file is on my linux system but renaming it...i'll let everyone know how it goes.

[Garbage_Collector]

well, so far it's working, even though i only got my first game win save to appear...Konato's method works, thanks to every pariticipant in the thread for trying to help, it amounts to whether you want to keep proton for the moment i do.

[Garbage_Collector]

each individual ".dat" file is a different save slot, I'm going to have to put each one in the Hollow Knight folder if i want to have everything i did before.

[Perseus]

Well, it seems this will problem will soon stop relatively soon : https://steamcommunity.com/games/367520/announcements/detail/3406429723545099872

It's possible Steam will prompt you to choose between your current save file and your Windows one, so choose mindfully! (If you want to be sure, make backups when steam gives this prompt! Save file locations are detailed in the event thing.)

[Garbage_Collector]

Originally posted by Perseus:

Well, it seems this will problem will soon stop relatively soon : https://steamcommunity.com/games/367520/announcements/detail/3406429723545099872

It's possible Steam will prompt you to choose between your current save file and your Windows one, so choose mindfully! (If you want to be sure, make backups when steam gives this prompt! Save file locations are detailed in the event thing.)

That's cool...the unfortunate thing about hollow knight is by default you only get 4 save files when there are 10. It's not as simple as "each save file is a game". At this point, i'm not sure whether i'll do the whole game for 112%, i was able to recover a godhome save but unfortunately it doesn't allow you to fight absolute radiance automatically, so i'll probably just use mess around with other games in my steam library and hope the solksong devs don't keel over and die before they release it!

[Perseus]

Originally posted by Garbage_Collector:

That's cool...the unfortunate thing about hollow knight is by default you only get 4 save files when there are 10.

Do you mean backups? Without mods, Hollow Knight only has four save files.

Originally posted by Garbage_Collector:

At this point, i'm not sure whether i'll do the whole game for 112%, i was able to recover a godhome save but unfortunately it doesn't allow you to fight absolute radiance automatically,

I could provide you with a save file that has 112% and AR unlocked, if you want (but also all bindings done and nearly all statues fully completed), or you could try using bloodorca's save file editor to unlock the AR statue : https://bloodorca.github.io/hollow/
(not sure which line(s) to change though)