Deleting Steam Cloud Saves

[ratchet]

Can't find an answer anywhere.....I want to delete my saves that were uploaded and synced with the Steam servers because I'm sick and tired of the same saves being downloaded to my P.C all the time
Why on earth did Steam make this so complicated???
Not impressed at all

[ReBoot]

Overwrite the save within the game.

[ratchet]

How do I do that??

[ReBoot]

You open the game and start a new game. That act alone is enough in most games to overwrite previous saves. You can also open the load-game-menu and delete saved states there.

[ratchet]

Overwriting the old saves with a "new" save won't do anything as Steam Cloud has the saves in their servers which they will download and synchronise onto my P.C every time I log into Steam.....It was a good idea but since the files aren't local, your method won't work

Thanks for trying to help though

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Right click the game> properties>updates> disable cloud sync.
Then delete saves as Reboot suggests or delete from the game's save directory .
Disabling cloud remote storage will stop them from redownloading off cloud again.
Here is a list of your cloud saves as you can see they can't be deleted from there.
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

[ElvisDeadly]

Just disable Steam Cloud in general settings?

Or disable it on a game by game basis if you do use it for anything

[Kargor]

Originally posted by ratchet:

Overwriting the old saves with a "new" save won't do anything as Steam Cloud has the saves in their servers which they will download and synchronise onto my P.C every time I log into Steam.....It was a good idea but since the files aren't local, your method won't work

Sorry, that's BS. The only reason cloud saves work is because Steam ALSO keeps them up-to-date; if they would just freeze a certain state of the save forever they would be completely pointless.

Steam downloads the saves before you play the game, and uploads them again afterwards.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by ratchet:

Overwriting the old saves with a "new" save won't do anything as Steam Cloud has the saves in their servers which they will download and synchronise onto my P.C every time I log into Steam.....It was a good idea but since the files aren't local, your method won't work

Thanks for trying to help though

That's not how it works. Steam cloud is a mirror of your local files so if you clean them up locally and then let Steam synchronize, you'll get a clean online state as well. I speak from experience here, cleaned up my TW saves wth the cloud saves getting cleaned up as well.

[Bigdaddypittpa]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by ratchet:

Overwriting the old saves with a "new" save won't do anything as Steam Cloud has the saves in their servers which they will download and synchronise onto my P.C every time I log into Steam.....It was a good idea but since the files aren't local, your method won't work

Thanks for trying to help though

That's not how it works. Steam cloud is a mirror of your local files so if you clean them up locally and then let Steam synchronize, you'll get a clean online state as well. I speak from experience here, cleaned up my TW saves wth the cloud saves getting cleaned up as well.

I've tried this many times for Skyrim SE, disable cloud sync, delete locally, but the minute you turn it back on they come back from the cloud. Unfortunately doesnt work at least not for SkyrimSE

[saleh199]

Originally posted by ratchet:

Can't find an answer anywhere.....I want to delete my saves that were uploaded and synced with the Steam servers because I'm sick and tired of the same saves being downloaded to my P.C all the time
Why on earth did Steam make this so complicated???
Not impressed at all

did you find a solution?? I am having the exact same problem in witcher 2 and I tried all the solutions in this forum but none of them worked for me.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

Originally posted by ratchet:

Overwriting the old saves with a "new" save won't do anything as Steam Cloud has the saves in their servers which they will download and synchronise onto my P.C every time I log into Steam.....It was a good idea but since the files aren't local, your method won't work

Thanks for trying to help though

That's not how it works. Steam cloud is a mirror of your local files so if you clean them up locally and then let Steam synchronize, you'll get a clean online state as well. I speak from experience here, cleaned up my TW saves wth the cloud saves getting cleaned up as well.

Maybe if you want to start all new. I tried to remove some saves of re7. It went so far that it DOWNLOADED savegames when the game closed.
Opposite of expectation.

[Iceira]

Can this help you better with detail on what files. ( more a what if this is a corrupted file that system wont make, dont get me wrong here Reboot is right, unless you have a file that is seen illigaly to the system, but then its a total diffrent issue. )
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

ps.
just because steam has a issue, what if this is a own Security app issue that block it then again we are over in diffrent issue.

[elviscera]

According to steam support the following may work to remove certain files from the Cloud save for a game (this example is for Dead Space Remake):
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Currently, there is no official feature that allows the deletion of cloud data for a game. However, you can follow the process below to attempt to manually overwrite this data.

Important: before doing any of the actions below consider backing any files that will be removed to a separate location until you confirm it worked as you desired. Please note that this process is not supported so we will be unable to provide any additional instructions regarding it should you choose to do it.

1. Make sure the game is installed, it needs to be installed for the files to be found.
2. Disable cloud functionality for the game (right-click the game in your library -> Properties -> General -> Untick "Keep games saves in Steam Cloud for Dead Space")
3. Navigate to the account's data page for your cloud saves at: https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorageapp/?appid=1693980
4. On this page, you will see each file currently in the cloud for your account for this game. For Windows, these files can be located at: %USERPROFILE%/My Documents/Dead Space (2023)/
5. Navigate to the location for the files on your computer and delete any files you wish to remove from the cloud in that folder and any sub folders.
6. Now, launch the game and create at least one new save file.
7. If that was successful, close the game and re-enable the cloud functionality for the game.
8. When you launch the game again, you will be prompted by a cloud conflict window asking you to pick between two options. You want to keep local files by selecting the "Upload to the Steam Cloud" to overwrite your older files.
9. Now the data for this game should be reset. Note that in some cases the cloud files may have been overwritten successfully without a cloud conflict window appearing. You can check the account data page again to see what is now stored.


You may also wish to visit the Steam Cloud FAQ for additional information about the Steam Cloud.

[Rex]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.