Accidently deleted my 230 hours savegame.

[Helican]

Someone pls kill me.

[Mothvibe]

Aw man...

I feel for you, but I won't kill you, sorry.

I did this myself but I only lost 20 hours and had made some bad build choices, so I was happy to start again.

And if you've already quit out of Fallout 4, there's no workaround at all, as far as I know. :(

I know this doesn't help right now, but:

ALWAYS back your saves up when you get to points of no return. I just do it in Windows (from Docs/Games/Fallout4), and it's annoying because of the way the files are named. And without going into detail, forcing Steam to accept your older game files can be a chore, too.

I assume there's a Fallout 4 Mod Manager out there - The one for New Vegas wasn't just a mod manager, it also managed saves. So that's your best bet, see if there's a Fallout 4 Mod Manager, probably from "The Nexus" website.

Frankly, I'm not going to research and link it because I don't need it myself. I'm sure you understand. :)

R.I.P. your character, best of luck to the next one!

[DEVOLVE MINHA CACHAÇA!]

Originally posted by Helican:

Someone pls kill me.

But...Fallout 4 is Steam Cloud enabled. If you activated it, and synched your saves at least once, the save file should be there, and can be reacquired if you resynch.

[Helican]

Originally posted by Mr. Dawn with Keys hat:

Originally posted by Helican:

Someone pls kill me.

But...Fallout 4 is Steam Cloud enabled. If you activated it, and synched your saves at least once, the save file should be there, and can be reacquired if you resynch.

I deleted the saves ingame. Unfortunatly steam cloud synched that. It's all gone.

[DEVOLVE MINHA CACHAÇA!]

Originally posted by Helican:

Originally posted by Mr. Dawn with Keys hat:

But...Fallout 4 is Steam Cloud enabled. If you activated it, and synched your saves at least once, the save file should be there, and can be reacquired if you resynch.

I deleted the saves ingame. Unfortunatly steam cloud synched that. It's all gone.

Oh :(.

[Carrythxd]

I'm not sure if this would work but I guess it's worth a try:

Go to My Computer and click on the drive that the 'My Documents' folder is located on, so most likely the C: drive. From there click on Properties and then click on Previous Versions.

From here, if you have the feature enabled (can't remember the name of it but it should be enabled by default on your C: drive, from what I've noticed atleast) you should see 1 or more previous versions of that drive, double click on one of them that was made before you deleted your save games and it should open it in a new window.
Now you need to find your My Documents folder, so go to "C:\Users\YOURNAME\My Documents" and after that find the Fallout 4 folder (\My Games\Fallout4). If it worked, you should now see your old save games if you open the 'Saves' folder, and from here you can just copy them over to your 'real' Fallout 4 Saves folder and boom, you'll have your save games back! Maybe not the latest ones but atleast you won't have to start from the beginning :P

But keep in mind, I'm not 100% sure if it works or not, I just thought I'd post it in case it would work

[Whargoul]

Well at least you claimed responsibility for your own mistake instead of blaming Bethesda

[Haunt Fox]

Did you empty your recycle bin yet? Might be there. I thought I lost a bunch of files once (replacable, fortunately) but I happened to find them there - I forget that thing stores "deleted" files ... or doesn't steam send stuff there, too?

[Ovaltine Jenkins]

Originally posted by Helican:

Someone pls kill me.

*Pew Pew!*

I'll show myself the door...

[The Tempted Man]

Go to recycle bin and stop crying

[Helican]

Originally posted by ϟMangekyō Sharinganϟ:

Go to recycle bin and stop crying

It's empty. Now what?

[Yhwach]

Originally posted by Helican:

Originally posted by ϟMangekyō Sharinganϟ:

Go to recycle bin and stop crying

It's empty. Now what?

I'd just ignore those people..
If you deleted it in-game, then it did a normal deletion and It's not sent to your recycle bin, in which case, you'll have to use some recovery software such as:
https://www.piriform.com/recuva

If you deleted it manually, the same method can be used to recover your saves, unless It was a DoD deletion

[TheSittingDuck]

Try a file recover program.

[Helican]

I think I'll just leave fallout for a few months and then build another character.

[sterale14]

just use console codes to get all your favorite ♥♥♥♥ back, then use console codes to retain your level and sprint through whatever side you chose.

[Tin Can]

Originally posted by Strontium Dingo:

Aw man...

I feel for you, but I won't kill you, sorry.

I did this myself but I only lost 20 hours and had made some bad build choices, so I was happy to start again.

And if you've already quit out of Fallout 4, there's no workaround at all, as far as I know. :(

I know this doesn't help right now, but:

ALWAYS back your saves up when you get to points of no return. I just do it in Windows (from Docs/Games/Fallout4), and it's annoying because of the way the files are named. And without going into detail, forcing Steam to accept your older game files can be a chore, too.

I assume there's a Fallout 4 Mod Manager out there - The one for New Vegas wasn't just a mod manager, it also managed saves. So that's your best bet, see if there's a Fallout 4 Mod Manager, probably from "The Nexus" website.

Frankly, I'm not going to research and link it because I don't need it myself. I'm sure you understand. :)

R.I.P. your character, best of luck to the next one!

If you use Steam's cloud, it will reload all your recent saved games onto your computer.