Help Steam saved games

Clairvoyant · 4 Sep 2015 at 20:47

I was clearing out games I dont play on Steam, and uninstalled the whole steam folder. Yes Im a noob lol

So have I lost all my saves for all my steam games.

I have tried to recover with so called free software (but they are never free). Can anyone recommend a true free bit of software. (I used to have some a long time ago but cant remember what it was called.

TIA

Disco_P · 4 Sep 2015 at 21:15

AFAIK nearly all steam games store their saves in the My Documents folder or buried somewhere in user/appdata.

And I don't think that uninstalling the game deletes these folders and stuff. I might be wrong as I have never "uninstalled" a steam game.

Kalexuz · 4 Sep 2015 at 21:15

I've used https://www.piriform.com/recuva before it worked for what I needed

Clairvoyant · 4 Sep 2015 at 21:26

I have just installed steam and downloaded Dying Light and no saved game.

zola25 · 4 Sep 2015 at 21:32

Silly question, but do you have Steam cloud enabled?

Clairvoyant · 4 Sep 2015 at 21:53

zola25 said:
Silly question, but do you have Steam cloud enabled?

Dont think so.

VincentHanna · 4 Sep 2015 at 22:23

Why would you turn it off? Steam cloud saves are a lifesaver

Glanza · 4 Sep 2015 at 22:27

Steam auto saves them in the cloud.

Edit: Well it does if you don't turn it off.

zola25 · 5 Sep 2015 at 15:27

VincentHanna said:
Why would you turn it off? Steam cloud saves are a lifesaver

To be honest I've turned it off as I've had it download an older save and wreck the one on disk. However, I do have a fairly comprehensive backup system in place with rotating offsite copies.

pearce64 · 6 Sep 2015 at 01:06

in future use game save manager to back up your saves
http://www.gamesave-manager.com/

m4cc45 · 6 Sep 2015 at 08:24

Or turn steam cloud on - if your game saves are out of sync it will warn you and ask you what to do (i.e. do you want to overwrite them).

M.

RumbleBee · 6 Sep 2015 at 09:01

pearce64 said:
in future use game save manager to back up your saves
http://www.gamesave-manager.com/

I love this program. Thanks to this I have my save game backups from years ago. I love the Steam Spreader utility included too.

When uninstalling Steam Games, or any program/game. The contents of your user profile are normally left intact. As most PC game saves are stored there I find it odd that they have all uninstalled too. Even if the save games are stored in the Steam directory they are never stored in the game folder itself.

Good luck recovering them.

Antony101 · 6 Sep 2015 at 13:45

Clairvoyant said:
Dont think so.

I've formatted my PC at least 4 times since I last played Dying Light and I still had my saves when I installed if a few days ago.

Steam Cloud ftw.