Save Game Issues in Steam Cloud After Moving OS to New Drive

[Calkurn]

So, I recently moved my OS to a new hard drive (C:) and kept the same drive that all my steam files were installed on unchanged (D:). Went through and reinstalled Steam, updated my graphics card drivers, repaired my library folder, and then verified the integrity of my game cache, then started up Cyberpunk 2077. I start the game and find that none of my saves are there.

It looks like steam created a new save folder on my new C: drive with a new steam_autocloud.vdf file. "No Big Deal", I think. I just copy the whole folder from my D: drive and put it in the new location on the C: Drive. Doesn't work. Next, I think steam is restoring the file to what's in the cloud over the correct file that I copied in the folder. So, I try disabling the 'Keep games saves in the Steam Cloud' option. No luck. Any ideas before I lose my mind? I have what I'm pretty dang sure is the correct file backed up, but nothing seems to stick

[Calkurn]

May have realized part of the issue. The ONLY file in the D: drive is a .vdf file that was last modified on 1/25. I assumed the saves were somehow in that file, but after watching a Youtube video on the saves I see that there were other individual folders for the save files. Could they somehow have been removed when I went through verifying my game cache and the like?

Extra complication - I had my old %user folder redirected from my old C: Drive to my D: drive to save space on my tiny SSD. Not sure, but Steam maaaybe could have still found the D:/user folder even though there was a whole new one in C:/User? Still no idea. Am I screwed? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Jack Schitt]

There aren't many games I personally have that store saved game files in the library folder of the game they're usually stored in AppData or Documents folders, somewhere else on the primary drive (C:\). This is done so if we have an issue with a game re-installing is a good idea to try to fix it the deletion process doesn't scrap our saves.

If you didn't back the save files up that are in those other individual folders on C:\ and move them to the new one they're not there / where the game looks for them.

They are still on the old drive if you just pulled the drive out without deleting or formatting it. If that's (hopefully!) the case put the old one back in temporarily and copy the saved game etc files to the D:\ so you have access to them when you put the new drive in again.
Then you can copy them from D to where they need to be on the new C drive.

Not all games have cloud. Some of them that do have cloud features don't save to the cloud if the options to enable and allow it to do that are not checked to enable it. Some games I have that use the cloud have a cloud setting in it's Properties (Library > Select Game > Right-Click > Properties) and in the game's setting options after the game is launched.

Probably? Almost all of your saved game files are on the old C:\.

The .vdf files are Steam files that have nothing to do with your saved game files. They're data files the steam client uses for different things. I don't know exactly what they're used for, my guess is account verification stuff, but they're not saves.

All of your saves from all of your games wouldn't be in one file either. Each save you can select in the 'load game' screen of each games is usually a separate file.

For games that require an online connection to play them the saves are most likely on the server the game connects to when you launch. Those saves might not be anywhere on any of the drives. Only on the game's server.

[wadecotter]

Im having problems with steam not saving my progress in my game.. some charterers I cant use

[Calkurn]

Yeah, I see that all my old files are on my D: Drive. The D:/%user/Saved Games folder (on the old drive) kept My Doom and Dishonored saves, but not my Cyberpunk. The folder's there, just no save files in it.

[Jack Schitt]

Originally posted by Calkurn:

Yeah, I see that all my old files are on my D: Drive. The D:/%user/Saved Games folder (on the old drive) kept My Doom and Dishonored saves, but not my Cyberpunk. The folder's there, just no save files in it.

Games aren't manufactured by the same exact company the same exact way. Developers are different individual people so how games are made and structured is as diverse as individuals are. Saved game files are located wherever the devs decided to make them save to. If there is a folder for them and it's empty there either are no saves or they're on the cloud.

We can view our cloud files here:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
They can be downloaded so we have a local (on our computer) copy of them if we want by clicking on 'show files' then 'download'.

Just because there is a folder named 'save' doesn't mean that's where the saved games are stored that folder could have some other purpose and the saved game files are located somewhere else.

When we can't find what we're looking for the answer can usually be found by asking a search engine.