Hello,
On my old PC, I saved the savefiles to an external hard disk, and when I put them in the appropriate directory, the game wouldn’t recognise anything. Cloud saving is disabled.
Did Crate change where the save files have to be? Since documents/my games/Grim Dawn won’t work, nor the steam/userdata/<number>/219990/remote directories let’s me use the save files I had previously.
Thanks 
The save files are still in the same location as they have been.
I suspect that you have Steam Cloud Save enabled. Check the Grim Dawn Game Options to see if you have it enabled, if so disable it.
Put your save files in \My Games\Grim Dawn\save folder. (I think its save folder.)
Edit: The other thing is how old are these save files? IIRC, if they are really old, then the game my no longer support the old save files.
As I said in the first post: cloud saving is disabled.
And for the age of the files, I last used them yesterday, and earliest save created was in december last year IIRC.
But I found them by making a character and just searching the harddisks for anything with that name. Don’t know why I didn’t think of this earlier to be honest.
The characters thankfully show up now. If I couldn’t get them back, I probably would’ve quit, cause I would lose so much gear and grinding to find it again would’ve broken my will to play 
But thanks for the fast reply.
not like I want to necro an old topic, but I had a similiar issue which almost drove me nuts. Using my office laptop to play when I communte with trains, I could not find my most recent savegames on the system. Later I found out it was saved in a remote folder of steam, but I could not zip the save files because of cisco security software (ridiculous), then I shut it down using the task manager and it worked just fine - not a fan of cloud saving, I don’t want to lose my saves.
I recommend maintaining a backup of your saves. Unless you’re an HC player, I’ve noticed HC players seldom do this