@Jaknet - Hope you don’t mind me posting this here. I made a visual guide for this process for someone in another thread but I suppose it is suited to be here as well.
Visual Guide to Move Your Cloud Saves to Local - and Vice Versa
Click ME to jump to the next section on moving local saves back to the cloud. Reading the first section, however, makes it easier to understand the process completely.
How-To: Move Your Cloud Saves to Local
1) When you’re ready to finally be done with cloudsaving just fire the game up as normal and go into your options.
2) Click the Network tab, then click the Download Cloud Saves button, as shown (DO NOTE that the two buttons on this screen - the Download Cloud Saves & the Delete Cloud Saves buttons - are only visible IF the cloudsaving toggle is enabled):
This downloads anything currently in cloudsaving into your local save folder here:
Tab out to verify that your character(s) have indeed been downloaded and moved into the “main” folder in the local saves location. Please, please be aware that IF you for whatever reason already happen to have characters existing in this location AND in the cloud simultaneously AND if any of those characters happen to have the same name, you have just effectively overwritten your local save character with the cloudsaved character of the same name. There is no coming back from that so please be attentive to what you are doing and what you may have done in the past.
If you are unsure of yourself and these steps then please backup/copy the entire local save Grim Dawn folder before beginning any operations you are not fully confident performing yet. Copy it to an out of the way location for insurance just in case you do something wrong/unintentionally.
The local save location for GD is ALWAYS here:
C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME HERE\Documents\My Games\Grim Dawn
3) Tab back in and if everything looks good and you decide you do not want a copy remaining in the cloud, press the Delete Cloud Saves button in the same screen as shown:
and then…
4) Switch to the Gameplay tab and toggle OFF cloudsaving and hit OK:
5) If you end up seeing this screen:
Then by all means, tell it NO and then exit the game.
6) Right-click Grim Dawn in your library list and select Properties and then disable cloudsaving synchronization as shown:
You are now rid of cloudsaving. Enjoy.
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How-To: Move Your Local Saves Back To The Cloud
If you ever wish to REVERSE the process it is simple enough. Mostly you just reverse the steps detailed in the first section above.
1) Right-click Grim Dawn in your Steam list> Properties> and then Enable Steam Cloud Synchronization.
2) Fire the game up and then go into the options and toggle cloudsaving back on.
3) RESTART the game and then go back into options to the NETWORK tab. If you previously told cloudsaving to Delete Cloud Saves then cloudsaving is currently EMPTY.
4) To move your local saves back into the cloud press the Delete Cloud Saves button again and then go back to Grim Dawns Main Menu where you will then get this screen:
This time tell it YES and your locally saved characters will appear immediately in the game menu (and thus, in the cloud). At this juncture, if you CHOOSE to… you can now safely DELETE your locally saved characters easily by going into the local save location and deleting the “save” folder as shown below:
You have now moved your saves back into the cloud. It is just that simple.
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