How to Restore Local Save Files?

[Spaghet114]

Steam Cloud overwrote my local save files. I was very far into the story and it has set me back EXTREMELY far. Is there any way to recover my original save files? I do not want to replay ~15 hrs

P.S. Everyone please disable Steam Cloud on this game. FML

[Jig McGalliger]

Do you use File History?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/backup-and-restore-in-windows-10-352091d2-bb9d-3ea3-ed18-52ef2b88cbef

[★ FmNey ★]

Right click on the folder, check "previous version" tab, if nothing there it's done

[Jig McGalliger]

There are two people in this world: those who make backups and those who will make backups.

Then there is a subset of the latter that knows (possibly from experience) that a single backup is just not enough and is worth nothing if restoration capability is not regularly verified.

My windows file history uses a mapped networked drive that runs from a local linux server via samba, that drive is actually two HDDs with RAID 1. Though any secondary sata/USB/PCI drive will suffice.

[Spaghet114]

Thank you all for the info,
Unfortunately I did not have any 'Previous Versions' available in the folder's properties :(
BUT I found out that there is still a way.

If Steam Cloud overwrites your save, all it does is overwrite the profile.cfg file in Users\"username"\Saved Games\metro exodus\76561198012564321\game1 folder. Right outside of the game1 folder there is a copy of the local profile.cfg file. This profile.cfg is your latest *local* save game.
Make a copy of the profile.cfg in \"76561198012564321" folder.
Overwrite the profile.cfg inside \game1 with the one 'outside' of \game1 folder.
I was able to restore my save this way.
This also restored my sensitivity/fov settings as its also stored in profile.cfg