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@tkagkr815

Cloud Save Error

remember, cloud is a Steam feature, as such some things has to be a certain way from Steam’s instructions, and devs don’t have influence over eveything like example the 50 char limit
*chars not appearing in menu would suggest a mismatch between your save locations, which might means not being aware of what “cloud”/save locations refer to
Cloud setting ingame dictates where game physically saves to your computer, cloud box on ingame = game saves to steam folder, cloud box off = game saves to documents folder
Your active player chars has to match that save location, you can’t just turn cloud on off and chars will appear; because they are physically stored on a specific place on your computer and you will have to move them to match

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

@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 cloudsavi…

*and you can only from documents folder saves to steam folder saves with the ingame function

@Scipo0419

So, Cloud Saves are a bit janky but what you can do is go into the settings, click the network option, and download cloud saves. This will overwrite the saves on your local machine. You can then delete cloud saves, and then when you go back to the main menu it will ask if you’d like to upload your local saves to the cloud.

Just to clarify, this doesn’t actually touch “cloud”
Grim Dawn saves to two locations on your HDD; depending on the ingame setting for cloud on/off
ingame cloud on = game saves to steam folder
ingame cloud off = game saves to documents folder
using the network option to “download” cloud merely equates to moving saves from the steam folder to the documents folder, and deleting cloud doesn’t actually delete cloud just the saves in the steam save folder

It’s very important to remember to actually use the steam cloud storage/backup/“sync” functionality cloud has to be on in both steam settings and ingame.
To then also proper store/“upload” a char to cloud the data must have been recently touched - if you transfer 50 chars from documents to steam folder (must be done with ingame function/can’t be done manually copy paste), then you must open the game with the cloud setting active(requires restart after switch) and load each char into the world before exiting, and then steam will sync it proper
*Steam will only ever sync saves from the steam save folder, hence why the cloud box ingame needs to be on/is there (and ofc cloud on in steam settings too)

Keep in mind, if you do this transfer method of using local saves/cloud off and game saves to documents folder and you transfer them to steam folder for cloud backup, it’s easy to bust the 50 char limit, which can get wonky sometimes, as such it can be best to use a different cloud service if one wants cloud backups.