Character randomly deleted?

[Pagan Lion]

I just had my game crash and when I went to reboot it, the character was missing. Went to Manage Saves, and found it with "deleted" beside it. There were several cloud saves which allowed "restore" as an option, but none of them have succeed saying "Please try again or restart the game or problem persists!"...Ten reboots later and it's the same thing.

There are some from June of LAST year that I could try that appear to not be cloud based, but is there any way to recover the randomly deleted character?

[jonnin]

should be a backup file (named .old, this is done by the game for you) on your hard drive, remove the .old from it.
or you may have to restore from your hard drive backups or if you do them, your valheim backups.

if you are cloud only, no local files, there are instructions somewhere on how to access the cloud as a disk, where you can see if you have backups and manipulate the files there instead.
I recommend you get local files, whether you also use the cloud or not, just so you can control backups and preserve your stuff if you care about it. Most games I don't care, if I lose my stuff, but MMOs & building games, a bit more important to protect it.