Hey..... cloud saves? Where are you?

[campcreekdude]

I just had to reinstall windows and the game but my cloud saved games are not there and downloaded automatically. I really would like my save back.......

Anyone know how to check for sure if its gone? I feel like I lost everything.

[campcreekdude]

Well apparently the game has cloud saves as an optional thing when you save the game and i was continuously saving on local not on the cloud. So when i updated windows and the computer crashed (yes I updated windows through windows update) I lost my population of 479,000 people.

This really sucks as I was hoping to get to 1 million but i guess not I gotta start again.

[john.glossop]

Ah, the value of regular data backups, or storing you data on an external device.

[sternenstaub70]

Originally posted by campcreekdude:

Well apparently the game has cloud saves as an optional thing when you save the game and i was continuously saving on local not on the cloud. So when i updated windows and the computer crashed (yes I updated windows through windows update) I lost my population of 479,000 people.

This really sucks as I was hoping to get to 1 million but i guess not I gotta start again.

how exactly did you update your windows ?
did you just overwrite the existing windows installation ?
Did you completely wipe your disk before/during update ?

if you did not delete anything, there might be a chance that your update only created a new userprofile without deleting the old one.
Windows has the tendency to not touch or delete old (user) data.

Best is to check your C:\Users directory

Just in case your old profile still exists, check if c:\users\<oldprofilename>\AppData\LocalLow\Colossal Order\Cities Skylines II also exists (you may need to adjust permission settings for those directories)
If it exists, just copy the contente from the saves folder from the old profile to the one of the new profile.

[TheKillerChicken]

It might be under "windows.old" if you updated by over-writing the previous OS. I tend to store all of my data on a dedicated backup server whenever I do any kind of modifications or even simplified changes to my OS/Games.

[campcreekdude]

I was getting a Boot error and it wouldn't let me repair install. Windows could not repair itself either.

Prior to boot error updating to Windows 24H2 gave me an inaccessible boot device. Then later on I forced the update with Windows USB installer. It worked fine until a windows update caused boot error to persist again.

In the meantime I did a firmware update on my SSD. It warned that data losses could happen with a firmware update. So I've been doing a number of updates hard to exact the situation but most likely Windows 24H2 problem.

The only way to fix it easily was to erase and reinstall. Upon reinstalling Windows could not find my activation key. So something got terribly erased.

But now I am using steam cloud learnt my lesson. I store my gamefiles on a seperate hard-drive but that didn't help as Cities Skylines 2 stores mods and saves on the C: drive by default.

[TheKillerChicken]

It actually is my ultimate peeve with windows that Micro$courage now makes it so it is possible to store everything on the C: volume. I remember with windows 95 and 98, everything was stored in the games' volume. The C: volume should ONLY be for the OS, and nothing more. I feel that Linux/Unix has a much better structure for storage.