My Save after playing 36 hours is gone

[Will?]

Anyone know how to help i havent messed with any of the files my cloud says its up to date idk what to do my guy

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

I don't use cloud saves for this reason. I've had this happen in several games in the past. I keep local backups. Saves are stored in: C:\Users\[Your User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\SAVEDGAMES in the folder called STEAM.

[Will?]

I found the save how do i load that instead of cloud?

[Defective Dopamine Pez Dispenser]

No idea, as I don't use cloud saves. I just make manual copies of the STEAM folder, and if I run into a game breaking bug or the game fails to detect my save, I overwrite the existing save with the backup and keep playing. Hopefully someone who uses cloud can assist.

[gwelty]

If you have cloud saves turned on, then when you start the game it will always compare the date of the save file you have on your hard drive with the save file it uploaded to the cloud when you last quit the game. Since your cloud save will be newer, it will ignore the (older) save on your hard drive when it starts the game, and will later replace the save on your hard drive with the one it loaded from the cloud. With cloud saves turned on, the save in the cloud is always the newest save. Thus, if you have cloud saves on *and* you have a save file on your hard drive that is older than the one in the cloud, it will assume you want to use the (newer) cloud save and it will load that, completely bypassing the older save file you have on your hard drive.

Here's how to make the game use the older save file you have on your hard drive: turn off cloud save, run the game, load a save as normal, turn on cloud save while the game is still running, quit the game. It will first load the save on your hard drive (because cloud save is turned off), then upload it to the cloud when you quit the game (because you turned cloud save back on before quitting).

How do you turn off cloud save? Right-click the game in the Steam list of games, choose "Properties...", then General, then unclick Steam Cloud (so the checkmark is off). Then run the game.

How do you turn cloud save back on after you load a save, while the game is still running? Alt-tab to the Steam screen, right-click the game in the Steam list of games, choose "Properties...", then General, then *click* Steam Cloud (so the checkmark is on). Then alt-tab back to the game. Since you've turned cloud save back on, when you now quit the game, it will upload your current save to the cloud (which is great, because you loaded your current save from your hard drive, and wanted to replace the cloud save with it).

As far as I know, this is always how you replace a save in the cloud with a save on your hard drive. Turn off cloud save, run the game, load a save, turn cloud save back on, quit the game. The next time you run the game, the gave save in the cloud should be the one you loaded from your hard drive.

BTW, I always backup my save file that is on my hard drive, after I quit the game. I compress the 'Warner Bros\Skywalker Saga' folder in %APPDATA% into a zip file, then move it somewhere else on my hard drive as a backup (or put in your own cloud folder, rather than Steam's). That way you can always retrieve and use it later.

[gwelty]

Or, just never use cloud saves in the first place, and follow Aikido's advice two posts above this one.

[tatoyokai]

Escrito originalmente por gwelty:

If you have cloud saves turned on, then when you start the game it will always compare the date of the save file you have on your hard drive with the save file it uploaded to the cloud when you last quit the game. Since your cloud save will be newer, it will ignore the (older) save on your hard drive when it starts the game, and will later replace the save on your hard drive with the one it loaded from the cloud. With cloud saves turned on, the save in the cloud is always the newest save. Thus, if you have cloud saves on *and* you have a save file on your hard drive that is older than the one in the cloud, it will assume you want to use the (newer) cloud save and it will load that, completely bypassing the older save file you have on your hard drive.

Here's how to make the game use the older save file you have on your hard drive: turn off cloud save, run the game, load a save as normal, turn on cloud save while the game is still running, quit the game. It will first load the save on your hard drive (because cloud save is turned off), then upload it to the cloud when you quit the game (because you turned cloud save back on before quitting).

How do you turn off cloud save? Right-click the game in the Steam list of games, choose "Properties...", then General, then unclick Steam Cloud (so the checkmark is off). Then run the game.

How do you turn cloud save back on after you load a save, while the game is still running? Alt-tab to the Steam screen, right-click the game in the Steam list of games, choose "Properties...", then General, then *click* Steam Cloud (so the checkmark is on). Then alt-tab back to the game. Since you've turned cloud save back on, when you now quit the game, it will upload your current save to the cloud (which is great, because you loaded your current save from your hard drive, and wanted to replace the cloud save with it).

As far as I know, this is always how you replace a save in the cloud with a save on your hard drive. Turn off cloud save, run the game, load a save, turn cloud save back on, quit the game. The next time you run the game, the gave save in the cloud should be the one you loaded from your hard drive.

BTW, I always backup my save file that is on my hard drive, after I quit the game. I compress the 'Warner Bros\Skywalker Saga' folder in %APPDATA% into a zip file, then move it somewhere else on my hard drive as a backup (or put in your own cloud folder, rather than Steam's). That way you can always retrieve and use it later.

When i try to fix the problem, when i m in the part where i'm running the game, do i need to load a new save file

[tatoyokai]

i'm asking that because i have the same problem as the creator of this discussion but the save file with all my progress is just unloadable

[gwelty]

If the save file you want to load is on your hard drive, in the proper subfolder of the %APPDATA% folder, then yes, you turn off cloud save, run the game, *load the save* (e.g., 'continue game'), alt-tab to Steam to turn cloud save back on, alt-tab back to the game, then quit the game. It will now quit the game and, as a final action, upload your save to the cloud.

Of course, if the save file on your hard drive is *already* messed up, I don't know what to say. My instructions are only for people who want to manually load a save on the hard drive that is in good working order, first bypassing and then replacing what is in the cloud.

[gwelty]

It's ridiculous that Steam doesn't have a simpler system, BTW.

[Will?]

Appreciate the help don’t think I can get that 40 hour save back but imma start over cause I gotta get 100%.
I swore to steven

[tatoyokai]

Thank for the help gwelty but i think my save is lost forever then. I think i will start a new save and do manual saves

[seark]

Escrito originalmente por gwelty:

If the save file you want to load is on your hard drive, in the proper subfolder of the %APPDATA% folder, then yes, you turn off cloud save, run the game, *load the save* (e.g., 'continue game'), alt-tab to Steam to turn cloud save back on, alt-tab back to the game, then quit the game. It will now quit the game and, as a final action, upload your save to the cloud.

Of course, if the save file on your hard drive is *already* messed up, I don't know what to say. My instructions are only for people who want to manually load a save on the hard drive that is in good working order, first bypassing and then replacing what is in the cloud.

so if theres a save from one day ago like in one of my folders then would it go to that save?

[gwelty]

If by a save "in one of my folders" you mean a save in C:\Users\[yourusername]\AppData\Roaming\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment\LEGO Star Wars - The Skywalker Saga\SAVEDGAMES\STEAM\[some number]\SLOT1, then the method above will load that save rather than the save in the cloud, and then upload that save to the cloud when you quit (so you don't have to go through this 'turn off cloud, turn on cloud' nonsense more than once).

This is a way of temporarily turning off the cloud, so that it loads your save file from your hard drive instead. Then you turn cloud back on, and it will upload your current save to the cloud when you quit.

If you have multiple saves on your hard drive, in SLOT1, SLOT2, etc., then obviously you should, in game, manually load the save you want.

[gwelty]

In my posts above, I'm giving you a somewhat more straightfoward version of the steps here (see first reply, by XMog):

https://steamcommunity.com/app/250900/discussions/0/1290691937720026011

The steps are:

1. turn off cloud save
2. make sure the save you want to load is in SLOT1 (or whatever) on your hard drive
3. start the game
4. load the save
5. alt-tab out of game
6. right-click on game name in steam library
7. turn cloud save back on
8. alt-tab back into the game
9. quit game

Step 4 loads the save on your hard drive, rather than downloading the (newer) save from the cloud. This is because cloud got turned off in step 1.

Step 9 will trigger uploading your current save to the cloud. So now you can continue to use cloud save in future runs of the game, and have it load the correct save. In this way, you replaced the (bad) save in the cloud with the (good) save on your hard drive. Now the save in the cloud is the good save.