How to - Move your saves from Steam cloud to Grim Dawn's default location.

Read thru my post here for a more visual rundown of how it all works:

Once you have the gist of it you should have little trouble adjusting it to account for your own current scenario.

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That took 2 minutes, much easier than I thought, thanks.

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@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:

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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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@powbam Not in the slightest, anything that makes things easier to understand is always good. Thank you for taking the time to do this.

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Hey, I’ve carried out a successful transfer in the past but I’m unable to launch any multiplayer games, do you have any idea which files are causing the mismatch to prevent me here?

Are the save files working fine in single-player? I can’t think of how moving your saves would prevent you from playing multiplayer (chances are that your issue is unrelated to moving your saves) unless they had become corrupted somehow. If they work fine in single-player then they are probably alright.

Other than that I would probably verify integrity -

– if any of your game files are truly “mis-matched” doing this should resolve it.

If that doesn’t work then we are going to be needing more information from you like what mods you are using etc.


Edit: Nevermind, I see you posted on Steam that you had fixed it:


Thank you for the help never the less!

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I just recently (believe it or not) installed Windows 10 :open_mouth:

I had been using windows 7 for many years but wanted to play Diablo II Resurrected because it requires Win 10 and Direct X 12 (or something)

Anyhoo… If you are like me and did not realize the ton of changes from Win 7 to Win 10 then you will not know that there is a ton of CRAP like ONE Drive cloud from microsquish

So if you are like me and still have that crap on there then the folder will not Always be in the “users\name\ documents…etc”

I ripped that One Drive crap out just now and man…half of my desktop icons are gone and I don’t know what else I will have to rebuild but at least I have control of things again rather than MicroSquish.

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hahaha feel you, MS one drive is bullshit.

I have that same issues, I have files and “My Games” under Onedrive unfortunately, how do I fix this? I would appreciate any help

See this Nightgecko

Hi everyone, I have a old save which is I guess level 40, but I use the mod Smash and Grab, tried to download the mod and download Steam save but still cannot find my character, please help me :frowning:

I’ve tried verify integrity but it doesn’t work

Make sure it’s the latest version of the mod and also that cloud saving is either on or off in both the Steam settings and the ingame Options menu.

I don’t get it ? Both options are online and I did download Steam saves from cloud in the game too

What is this saying?
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For anyone interested:

I used a free dropbox account and dropbox’ ‘backup’ option to backup my saves. It is a one-way backup, so no sync, but since I only use one computer it works well.

Hey there,

Sorry for the rush. td;rd

I`m managing how to bypass Windows log in wall as I can access the whole files through TAILS. This guide or any other one can make me save my progress and which files I must save . If I’m not wrong there are two places withe GD save files and it seems that the one we use to post our builds. No internet. No Offline Windows. Coming back soon and I’ve already played almost 15 or more chars before defeating Warder and started the FG. It would be no problem to start over but I would love not to.

Since I can keep track of the status of this post if someone can send me a message by e-mail – I don’t know if it against rules but its neither my personal email nor the one I’ve registered in the forum – which I’ve made only for this reason as it follows:

sistergift.violin490(at)passmail(.)com

Thanks.

(How come we can’t make notes in a personal journal?)

not sure what you’re specifically asking?
if it’s which save location that matters, then that depends on your ingame settings but only if using steam, if you use GoG the game only saves to documents path
If you’re using Steam version, in Grim Dawn ingame options Settings if cloud box is on game will save to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\steam acc nr folder\219990\remote\save
^start path/drive might be different if using a custom install

if Grim Dawn ingame cloud box is off game saves to
C:\Users\username\Documents\my games\Grim Dawn\save
^this path might be hijacked by Onedrive for some users in whcih case it will be in the ondedrive folder with same end path
*and again if you’re using GoG version it saves to the above documents path regardless of ingame cloud box on/off

if you want to move saves i recommend Pow’s picture guide How to - Move your saves from Steam cloud to Grim Dawn's default location. - #208 by powbam
*keep in mind you can’t copy paste saves into the steam save folder, game will only read “cloud” saves if imported from documents save location first. You can copy paste save/move files manually into the documents save location and game will read them without needing to import

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I knew I could count on you, Four days awake. I don`t know if I got what you’ve said. I wish, if possible, move the files to a external because it seems I’m going to wipe the HD out in order to use the device again. My game is from Steam. Did I make it clear?

I`m getting back my connection and I managed to install Neverwinter in the external drive and play using Tails. I wish Grim Dawn – without that complicated Steam Linux – was available for debian.

Thanks almost a party,