the tyranny and heartbreak of a full cloud

[rokbottom47]

Saving games with a full cloud has become very annoying. I have disabled cloud saving in Steam but with no effect. I have tried the method below also with no effect:

"i got this solution from aoe2 DE team and it worked
1. Open Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.
2. Navigate to the following two locations and manually delete any AOESPGAME Files.
- C:\Users\%Username%\Games\Age of Empires 2 DE\YOUR STEAM ID\savegame

- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\YOUR STEAM ID\813780\remote
delete only the saved games from this location. dont delete any other files
3. Close and reopen the game."

I still have 99.95% full cloud. Would someone please offer a solution for disabling cloud storage, or for cleaning up the cloud folder? If I uninstall and reinstall the game, would that give me a clean cloud start?

[Sleepy Joe]

It technically should but I'm not sure.

[Lilim]

I just deleted all my old saves and recorded games (while being in the game).

You can't load or watch them anyway if they are from an older game version before the last update.

[rokbottom47]

Update: Uninstalling and then reinstalling the game did not help. Still a full cloud.

[rokbottom47]

As a desperate measure, if I uninstall from Steam and then purchase AoE2DE from Microsoft Store, would that solve the problem? Seems like then I would only have a local copy and not be plagued by Steam cloud.

[DMg Halt]

https://www.alphr.com/delete-all-steam-cloud-saves/

Try this. It involves deleting all of the information on the files in your local folder that gets synced to the steam cloud every time you launch a game. What it will do is force a message box to appear when you start a game that states that the files in your steam cloud and the files on your system conflict, and gives you the option to download your cloud files to match the ones on you computer. Or you can upload the files from your computer to your cloud. You'll want to do the latter option, and since your deleted all of the data, you are basically uploading a bunch of blank files of 0 KB to your cloud, overwriting anything that was there originally. I did this and my cloud storage went down to zero. Best of luck.

[rokbottom47]

I was following the link above and got to the point of deleting the 813780 file in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\388313390 after backing up my saved games to desktop. I had sync to cloud enabled in Steam client and for the AoE2 game. I started the game and clicked the Load Game button. The selections only showed me the games in the cloud, which I was able to delete. I quit the game and checked to see if the 813780 folder had been recreated. It had. I then disabled sync to cloud in both AoE2 and Steam client. I dragged my backed up saved games into the 813780 remote folder. I then restarted AoE2, clicked Load Game, and saw my backed up games ready to play, as well as 0% cloud usage. However, when I did new saves, it still backs up to the cloud. I wish that could be truly disabled. At any rate, this seems to be a workaround, although annoying to do.

[DMg Halt]

I know this is an old topic. But I think I've found the easiest way to do it, and I'll post it here for anyone to copy and paste to others in the future.

We're assuming that you have the Steam Cloud synchronization option enabled in your Steam Settings. (Because if it was off, you wouldn't be here)

1. Exit out of the game and only have Steam open.

2. Navigate to the following file path, it should look like this:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\[UserID]\813780\remote

You can find your User ID by pulling up your friends list and clicking the "Add Friend" Button if you're interested

3. Once you're in the 'remote' folder you might have a bunch of saved games, or autosaves on disconnect. You can try to delete them, but Steam will just download them to your system from the cloud again. GRRRRRRRRR.

4. So here's what you do.... Open one of those AOE2MPGAME files with Notepad.

Control + A (Select All)

Backspace (Delete all the information in there)

Control + S (Save your AOE2MPGAME file with 0 KB of information in it)

5. Do this for all files in there, making them all 0 KB, then launch AoE2 DE.

The Steam Cloud will synchronize your local files to the cloud (the files you deleted all the information from).

6. Go to Main Menu > Single Player > Load Game.... Your Cloud Capacity should now be at Zero percent!

[ducbenho]

I found this topic on Steam:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2592250109

This seems fishy but it works flawlessly!