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u/absolutely_no_rs 10d ago

What do I do with game files downloaded from steam cloud?

For context: I was speedrunning a game and went to save, blew threw the options too fast because of muscle memory and accidentally miss-clicked, overwriting my main save with a side-project. I went to steam cloud and downloaded the old file before the new one was uploaded to steam upon closing the game. Now I have it downloaded but I have no idea where to place it. It's an individual file, not a folder or anything. Any help?

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u/Bodomi Yes. 10d ago

You need to find out where that game keeps the local save file and paste it there.

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u/lIIlllIIl https://s.team/p/fpcw-chm 10d ago

Hard to say, every game decides for itself where it places the save files. It's usually either in AppData or Documents, but may be elsewhere. You could check the pcgamingwiki, they usually have those paths listed for most games.

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u/absolutely_no_rs 10d ago

I think I've followed the path but this is all I've found at the end of it. GAMEDATA and the file I've downloaded from steam cloud are both 289KB so I figured I should swap GAMEDATA out for the thing I've downloaded but it didn't do anything but wipe all my progress. (Didn't matter, I just selected the "Use cloud data" after restarting and now I'm back to square 1). Sorry if the screenshot doesn't mean anything lmao I have no idea what's going on.