Steam saves

[nicholaswillems]

Hello,

 

There might already be a thread about this but I didn't find one;

 

I just built a new gaming pc, moving from mac and would like to continue the saves from (the few) games I was player there on steam. Is this in any way possible, to copy the saves?

 

Thanks in avance.

[Volbet]

Some of the saves are probably on Steam Cloud, so those you don't have to copy. Other then that you have to check where the games save there data. It might be in a seperate game folder (I don't know where this is on Mac) or in the Steeam game folder itself

[crunzaty]

I actually don't know if this will work flawlessly, since the MAC and Windows platforms are so different the saves from the mac might not work for your Windows computer. When it comes to where the savefiles is you kinda just have to search up every game individually since they are not saved at the same place on all the games. Some games also have a sort/form of cloud save which should download with the game when it's being installed again ;)

 

I know that the saves from some games is located in the main documents folder (document/game/savefile?). 

[Guest]

Just drag the steam saves from either the library steam folder or open explore the steam app and they should be in there.

[LogicalDrm]

Steam folder will not likely have save files. Try to find Mac version of personal settings and games folder there. Some games should have their own profile settings saved that way.

[ghostly65]

just google the game save location because a lot of games save in different locations so it can be hard to find all the save files but most games save on the cloud

[rashdanml]

Most of the saves should remain in Steamapps. Simply copy that over.

For games that don't save in steamapps, they'll be in one of many locations:

 

Appdata\Roaming

Appdata\Local

C:\Users\Username\Documents and Settings\My Games\

C:\Users\Username\My Saved Games\

 

To name a few. I might have some of them wrong, going from memory.

 

Personally, what I did was copy all the save folders (ones that didn't use Steamapps) to a central location, and used symlinks to link them to their original location.

 

Cloud saves are great, but I've lost entire save files because of it and tend not to trust them.