Accessing Steam Cloud saves?

[Zemecon]

Just a quick question: Where can I access and manage whatever I have on the Steam Cloud aside from my screenshots and artwork? I ask this because for a few of my games I am being asked whether I want to upload the saves I've got on my PC or download the saves I've got on the Steam Cloud. This happens whenever I exit some games because I am in the habit of deleting saved game files on my PC when I have too many and if they are stored on the Steam Cloud the only way I can do this is while the game in question is still running. I would rather not have to keep telling Steam that I don't need any deleted saved game files restored. Plus I would like to manage and minimize any allotted Cloud space Steam reserves for my account. Anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks for reading!

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Cloud saves are controllled by the devs. They allot the amount for each of their games.

Turn off cloud saves if you have issues.

You can view and download them from here though...

https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

[Zemecon]

Thank you.

[76561198884434704]

Can I delete it somehow? I play a game where a lot of saves is needed (almost every 30 minutes) and it is 10-20mb large file. Cloud will fill up very quickly.

[Zemecon]

Originally posted by battleoverlordgaming:

Can I delete it somehow? I play a game where a lot of saves is needed (almost every 30 minutes) and it is 10-20mb large file. Cloud will fill up very quickly.

From what I've discovered, you can open your game, then - while the game is open - go to the saved file location in Windows Explorer and delete your saves there. Once your game closes, Steam saves whatever is in your saved game folder to the Steam Cloud. But it can't save what isn't there so your saved game is gone for good.

You need to have your Steam overlay enabled, though, because there will be no way to access Windows Explorer if your game is in Fullscreen Mode. You also need to know the location of your saved games in Windows Explorer but I assume you already know this.

[starrspeed]

how can i view what is saved to the cloud

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by battleoverlordgaming:

Can I delete it somehow? I play a game where a lot of saves is needed (almost every 30 minutes) and it is 10-20mb large file. Cloud will fill up very quickly.

Originally posted by starrspeed:

how can i view what is saved to the cloud

This first reply answers both your questions, It helps to read the replies. Your answer might be in them.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Cloud saves are controllled by the devs. They allot the amount for each of their games.

Turn off cloud saves if you have issues.

You can view and download them from here though...

https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

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[Ka-papa Lord]

Hi, sorry for bringing up this old thread, but is it possible to see cloud saves from the steam app and not the browser? I'm wondering if there's a function to save multiple save files at once on there.

[Max Doge]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Cloud saves are controllled by the devs. They allot the amount for each of their games.

Turn off cloud saves if you have issues.

You can view and download them from here though...

https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

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Godsend.

Thanks for this, almost lost a ton of progress in a game by accidentally overwriting an earlier save. Luckily I downloaded that save file from the remote storage before it could get synced.

PHEW

[Fuzzykropolis]

so from account/remotestorageapp I download my save (a .cloud file) which goes to my download folder. What do I do with it from there?

[FeatheredFright]

Originally posted by Fuzzykropolis:

so from account/remotestorageapp I download my save (a .cloud file) which goes to my download folder. What do I do with it from there?

What is it you want to do? Restore a save? The name of the file should tell you in what folder the file should be located within the games folder. If it is just name.file it shoud go directly into the game folder. If the name is Data/name.file it should go in the Data folder within the game folder. You can find the game folder by right clicking the game in Steam -> properties -> local files -> browse. Hope that helps.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by FeatheredFright:

Originally posted by Fuzzykropolis:

so from account/remotestorageapp I download my save (a .cloud file) which goes to my download folder. What do I do with it from there?

What is it you want to do? Restore a save? The name of the file should tell you in what folder the file should be located within the games folder. If it is just name.file it shoud go directly into the game folder. If the name is Data/name.file it should go in the Data folder within the game folder. You can find the game folder by right clicking the game in Steam -> properties -> local files -> browse. Hope that helps.

How to do any of this depends on the game. No 2 games are exactly the same. What game is it?

We shouldn't have to do anything if we have cloud features enabled other than launch the game. When cloud features are enabled all of our personal data and progress should be there.

Saved game files are almost never in the game folder. They're usually in the appdata folder or somewhere else on our computers. A common alternative place saved info from games is store is in My Documents.

They're placed in a different location so we don't lose them when we uninstall. Cloud features help us not lose that stuff, developers of games usually try to set up where the game files go to prevent us from losing them too.

It depends on the game. What game is it you're trying to do this with, Fuzzykropolis?

[Grand Loser]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Cloud saves are controllled by the devs.
You can view and download them from here though...

https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

Thank you!!! I asked the incompetent people at steam support for exactly this a couple of years back and they told me there was no way to access the files.

[wuddih]

Originally posted by Grand Loser:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Cloud saves are controllled by the devs.
You can view and download them from here though...

https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

Thank you!!! I asked the incompetent people at steam support for exactly this a couple of years back and they told me there was no way to access the files.

the entire /accountdata/ node only exists since 2018 because of GDPR compliance.

there are and were also 3rd party tools for this purpose before that.

[The Space Cowboy™]

I recently had a game that backs up to steam lose all of my save data (Lego Star Wars TSS), what do I need to grab from the cloud and where do I need to put it to manually load it into the game

[BradyWoverine12]

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Cloud saves are controllled by the devs. They allot the amount for each of their games.

Turn off cloud saves if you have issues.

You can view and download them from here though...

https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage

How do I turn off the cloud saves. They are causing my game to crash before I can even start it.?