Lost my profile after a crash

[Birdy62]

I had a crash just after entering my spaceShip (had to hard reboot th PC) and my profile wad gone. No saves, i had to remap all the keys, the viseos settings were gone....
Never had this problem with any games i played..
Where are the saves files located ?

[MobiusDigital]

Here are some potential solutions to recovering your save data:

Recovering corrupted save files
Outer Wilds keeps automated backups of your save files in “C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Mobius Digital\Outer Wilds\Backup”. If for some reason your save file gets lost or corrupted, the latest good save data from each profile may be recoverable from here. The game will prompt to restore these files if they are missing or unreadable at startup.
If you would like to do this manually, simply copy the items within “Outer Wilds\Backup\<profilename>\” to “Outer Wilds\SteamSaves\<profilename>” and re-launch the game. Of note is that you may have to disable Steam Cloud sync to have this save copying go through. This can be done by right-clicking on Outer Wilds in your Steam library, selecting Properties, and unchecking “Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for Outer Wilds” in the Updates menu. After doing this, copy the backup files to your save profile folder, re-launch Outer Wilds, and once you are done playing, (optionally) re-enable the Steam Cloud sync option.

[Birdy62]

Hi, Thank you for your answer,
I started the game again as i was at the beginning. I keep your advice for a later problem. But it seems i found the culprit (post crashes - crashes -crashes)

[PIPPONOVAX]

I had the exact same problem, it worked for me, thank you very much MobiusDigital.

Originally posted by MobiusDigital:

Here are some potential solutions to recovering your save data:

Recovering corrupted save files
Outer Wilds keeps automated backups of your save files in “C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Mobius Digital\Outer Wilds\Backup”. If for some reason your save file gets lost or corrupted, the latest good save data from each profile may be recoverable from here. The game will prompt to restore these files if they are missing or unreadable at startup.
If you would like to do this manually, simply copy the items within “Outer Wilds\Backup\<profilename>\” to “Outer Wilds\SteamSaves\<profilename>” and re-launch the game. Of note is that you may have to disable Steam Cloud sync to have this save copying go through. This can be done by right-clicking on Outer Wilds in your Steam library, selecting Properties, and unchecking “Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for Outer Wilds” in the Updates menu. After doing this, copy the backup files to your save profile folder, re-launch Outer Wilds, and once you are done playing, (optionally) re-enable the Steam Cloud sync option.

[DareDroni]

I encountered this problem whilest changing my control settings maybe a unity bug?

[DareDroni]

nvm my Profile doesnt show up in game it gets trashed

[DareDroni]

Ok somethings messed up I cant play as for now juck

[BlackWater]

Check for corupted drivers and such, Ive had that happen a good bit in various games.