Just lost my save

[darkjedi666]

17 hours into the game, doing a LLG since I was not yet in the floating continent (for stat purpose), so it was a lot of effort and pain (including unlocking all bestiaries and rage...).
I thought between the pc local save and clouds this could not happened. But the game loaded with no continue nor 1 of my 5 saves which were all being used.
All gone...

Well at least it's only 17 hours (save time, I think it's much more since I trial error many places like Narshe fight), and I won't try again.

[Zunnoab #931]

Why are people blaming it being a port when this is not uncommon with Steam Cloud? This is why cloud saves should ASK since they are a dangerous pain when automatic.

Check your folders for .bak files too. Copy your save folders it may be gone but it may not be.

[Marvin!]

Originally posted by Zunnoab #931:

Why are people blaming it being a port when this is not uncommon with Steam Cloud? This is why cloud saves should ASK since they are a dangerous pain when automatic.

Check your folders for .bak files too. Copy your save folders it may be gone but it may not be.

I never saw anyone complaining about that in other games.

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by OmegaMarvin:

Originally posted by Zunnoab #931:

Why are people blaming it being a port when this is not uncommon with Steam Cloud? This is why cloud saves should ASK since they are a dangerous pain when automatic.

Check your folders for .bak files too. Copy your save folders it may be gone but it may not be.

I never saw anyone complaining about that in other games.

It destroyed a Terraria save of someone I know. Also EA's version for Plants vs. Zombies 2 not only erased an entire plane ride's worth of progress but bugged it so the Zen Garden no longer existed in my game. I've had it roll back Final Fantasy IV a few hours for my nephew too (and yes that is SE but I highly suspect the actual sync is left to Steam).

People have had Tales of Zestiria saves poof too, though I can't prove that's due to Steam Cloud. Terraria was definitely a Cloud Sync issue though, because he got a sync error message and his world became all zeros (in the file).

I can't believe Valve actually stores user data in Program Files too. That is 1990s type Windows design. They should be using a more appropriate user folder because it takes more work than it should to manually find out which files to back up and it's downright bad practice to write to Program Files for anything but software updates.

[Marvin!]

Please, link to otherthreads. Anedoctal evidence is.. well, not evidence.

Also, seeing how frequent theese arem I don't think its Steam's fault.

[Zunnoab #931]

Originally posted by OmegaMarvin:

Please, link to otherthreads. Anedoctal evidence is.. well, not evidence.

Also, seeing how frequent theese arem I don't think its Steam's fault.

I could link many threads but that is not proof Steam Cloud did it or that the loss wasn't the developer's implementation of the feature.

https://www.google.com/search?q=steam+cloud+save+gone

My advice to never exclusively trust cloud saves I will stick to.

[vperezol]

I know this is too late to help OP, but in case you wind up here bc you suddenly started ff6 and found the title card with "new game" and "exit":
you want to do this.
1) exit steam. i do mean EXIT. use app manager if you have to.
2) navigate to your steam folder in C:, find the FFVI folder (382900), copy the data and settings file to somewhere safe, then DELETE them from the 382900 folder.
3) start Steam. it should automatically re-download the saves it has on the cloud.
4) wait a bit, then open FFvi.

worked for me!