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Steam>Setting>Cloud
Or
If you want to disable individually
Library>Game of your Choice>Properties>General>Disable the Cloud Save
then restart the Steam
Steam>Setting>Cloud
I turn it off, and every now again when I log back in it's back on for some reason.
Try the clear "in game" web browser data cache, cookie.
I cant say its that but it could be a local cookie that dont do as it should.
all helper know this from past UI, they move it to "in game" section's so we all still have to adjust to new steam GUI and its new ways.
it might be local cookie, and that your job to figure out now. then you reply back.
ps.
we other cant help you then we dont know or have the problem, or want to use the turn off option , so its not that simple to help you. ( i can tell you this i will never turn it off with multi pc that is seen as a NO its not a option at all. ) or even test this.
Trash GUI. How it was in 2016 was the peak of Steam UI for me. And this issue probably didn't exist back then.
I disable the PC's NIC that allows internet access, and Steam starts in Offline mode, yet these settings still re-enable themselves. What I try to remember to do is launch the Client (Offline, PC has NO internet access) turn OFF the various Cloud settings...again, and only then re-enable the NIC and go online in Steam.
It's funny though, even if not online and PC cannot physically go online, Steam will say it's uploaded potentially gigs of save data...erm, where? How? Well, the answer to that - for several games - is a duplicate Save folder on my C: drive, often under "Public" rather than my Profile, but not always, depends on the game.
I'd wondered why my C: drive was filling up, yet I carefully managed my actual saves. To be clear, I've not tinkered with any Steam Client settings, and the Client is fully up to date. It just regularly (pretty much every Client start up) choses to re-enable Cloud saves for everything, and then go about filling up my drive with ancient, long-deleted saves.
As a specific example, I play a game called Kenshi. It saves to a folder within my profile, like many games do. I keep just the latest save. After going online in Steam, this folder gains several HUNDRED saves, from this and last year - basically a history of every save I've made - and deleted - since 2022. Nuts, right?
Thankfully, I suppose, I have a really good internet connection, so this doesn't hurt bandwidth, but, conversely, it does mean that a LOT of data can be "restored" to my PC in a very short time!
It's frustrating, and an issue I thought got fixed a long time ago, but it came back. It's not ME who's changed anything, I've never actually used Cloud saves. Steam just enables it.
Note: My Internet connection used to be TERRIBLE, less than 1mbps upload, and just 2.5 mbps down - so you can see why I never embraced Cloud saves in the first place lol. The connection is great now, but I don't want old, long-deleted saves constantly copied back to my PC, nor duplicate saves copied to another Public folder.
Yeah, a little frustrated by this lol. I have used the "Delete Web Browser Data" option, but nothing has changed. It's quite possible I'm missing something, but the bottom line is that the Client keeps enabling settings I've previously disabled.
I get that this doesn't seem to affect likely most people, but it's plagued me for a while now.
I'm the same as you; I don't like using the cloud so I'd rather back up my saves manually. If that talk I see about Steam Cloud being able to corrupt your game saves is true, then that is even more reason to fix this issue. It's lining people like us up to get pissed off over something that should not be.
The Global Cloud setting probably resets itself every time the Steam Client updates (and if that's the case, why is that a thing?). But it's been around for years. And at this point I'm convinced it'll never be fixed because the Steam UI devs clearly don't care.
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/3815166994152903295/
Following these steps might help turning it off, and keeping it off.
Not quite the same, data cannot be moved to or from the cloud of course, but that temporary location can still gain duplicate files. Also, if not manually cleared down - like I when I didn't realise quite what was happening - it seems that those files can still be copied back to the main save folder.
For me, the Settings (both global and individual games) is being reset to ON every single time I launch the Client. Client does not start with Windows, only when I do it.
I'll check out that thread, see if it offers any options I've not tried already.
Bottom line though, if the user changes a setting, Steam should NOT change it back every time the client launches. I'm guessing this is a BUG if it doesn't impact everyone, but having an App constantly copying data it has no permission to access to a server is a problem. As is copying data to my PC that it has no permission to either.