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Now simply find the games and game saves you wish to download, then click Show Files. This will show all save states and a range of other files saved by the game. Next to each file you can see its name, date, and the folder in which it should be located. To download a file, click the Download button and the content will be saved to your computer. Evochron Mercenary, when you download and launch it, it'll ask for your key, which you can find from steam's CD Key feature. SpaceChem, once you download it, you can activate it with the activation code you can find in the activation.key file in the one you downloaded from steam (you need to first download the game from steam) The Witcher.

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If you need to get a hold of your game saves stored on Steam Cloud, this article will show you how to download them quickly, easily, and officially using Steams preferred method. Although cloud saves are pretty safe and secure, it’s always good to have a secondary backup should something ever happen. At least of your most cherished game saves.

Back in the early days of video gaming, game saves were often one of the most important and difficult things to keep safe and not lose. Especially in the days of Playstation memory cards. More often than not a memory card loaded with saves would simply vanish from the console never to be seen again, taking with it hours and hours of gameplay.

Thankfully technology has progressed quite a lot since those days with most games and gaming clients storing save content in multiple locations. Steam is probably the most widely known platform that offers automatic cloud saves by default. It’s also the most reliable, secure, and easy to use. In fact, most people probably don’t even pay attention to the cloud upload process.

Although Steam's Cloud Save service is almost unfaultable, you may still want to or need to make a backup copy of all your cloud saved content for situations you may not have Internet access. If so, follow along as we guide you through the process of manually downloading game saves from Steam Cloud.

How Do You Manually Download Game Saves From Steam Cloud?

To manually download game saves from Steam Cloud, you can do so by following the below steps. First, open Steam then click Account > Steam Cloud or simply use the link below and sign in to your account when you get there.

Once you get to the page and sign in, you will more than likely have to confirm a 2FA check via email. After you have completed the check, you will see a huge list of data, all of which has been divided into games (oldest to newest). Now simply find the games and game saves you wish to download, then click Show Files.

This will show all save states and a range of other files saved by the game. Next to each file you can see its name, date, and the folder in which it should be located. To download a file, click the Download button and the content will be saved to your computer.

Take note that you don’t have to download everything that is listed, so feel free to only download what you need. If you have a ton of games played, you’ve probably got quite a large cloud save pile. Although most games don’t use all that much data. There are a couple like Divinity Original Sin 2 which use a monstrous amount. My personal Divinity Original Sin 2 cloud saves folder is 500mb….

Along with each save file, you will also see information regarding where the data should be saved to for the game to recognize the save properly. The main system catalog in which the save is found viewed below.

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WinMyDocuments = Documents library
WinAppDataLocal = AppData / Local folder in the user's directory on Windows
WinAppDataRoaming = the AppData / Roaming folder in the user's directory on Windows
WinSavedGames - Saved games = folder in the user's directory in Windows

In addition, the file name displays a specific subdirectory in the indicated location (eg My Games).

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After Epic Games announced that it would give away free copies of GTA V for aweek, many people started to claim this gift on that game platform. Even someexisting GTA V players who have already purchased the game on Steam had decidedto get another free copy so they could have two or more GTA Online accounts.

It appears that if you have already installed GTA V via Steam, you still needto download a full copy of the game files via Epic Games. However, by doingsome tricks, you can let Steam and Epic Games share the same set of GTA V gamefiles to avoid downloading the game again and thus save disk space. We will usethe MKLINK command on Windows, which is not well-known, to create a link tothe existing game files. The link works as if the linked files and folders areexactly there, but it occupies very little space.

Because I believe almost all people who wants to let the apps of these two gameplatforms share the same game files have already downloaded GTA V from Steamrather than Epic Games, the following instructions will create a link toSteam’s copy of GTA V files under Epic Games’ installation path.

Steps

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Download GTA V in Epic Games.
You will be prompted to choose an installation path. Select whichever pathyou want to use, and remember it.
Then, immediately pause download.
Quit Epic Games Launcher. Ignore the warning about cancelling installation.
Go to the GTA V installation path set in step 1, and move the .egstorefolder to somewhere else. In this demo, I moved it to the parent folder.
Then, delete the GTAV folder.
Find out where Steam stored GTA V game files. Open up game properties forGTA V in Steam, click on “Browse Local Files” under the “Local Files” tab,and remember the path shown in the file explorer. You may click on theaddress bar to copy the full path.
Copy GTA5.exe and PlayGTAV.exe in Steam’s GTA V installation tosomewhere else, and clearly label them as game files downloaded fromSteam. For example, I would put those files in a folder with nameSteam.
Start command prompt as administrator.
Run command mklink /D '<Epic Games Path>' '<Steam Path>' to create a linkto Steam’s game files for Epic Games. Fill in the paths with values you gotin step 1 and step 6 respectively. Remember to wrap the values in doublequotes.
After running the command, you should see the link created in Epic Games’game installation path.
Move the .egstore folder in step 4 back into GTAV.
Start Epic Games Launcher. If the download progress is paused, resume itmanually. Then, you should see it verifying files for GTA V, whichindicates success! Wait until it completes.
Once GTA V is ready to play from Epic Games, visit the folder storing GTA Vgame files again, copy GTA5.exe and PlayGTAV.exe similarly as in step7, but label them as game files downloaded from Epic Games this time.

In the future, if you want to launch GTA V via Steam, make sure the executablesyou copied in step 7, which are the ones you labeled Steam, are in the GTA Vgame files folder. If you want to launch it via Epic Games, then you should putthe files copied in step 12, labeled Epic Games by you, back to the gamefiles folder. These two files, GTA5.exe and PlayGTAV.exe, are the only twocritical files that differ between the copies of GTA V downloaded from Steamand Epic Games.

Sign Out Your Old Social Club Account!

I’ve heard from some people who have been already playing this game using thecopy downloaded from Steam saying that, when they launch GTA V through EpicGames Launcher, the new copy of the game is activated for their original SocialClub account, so they failed to make a brand new account for GTA Online. If youwant to have a new Social Club account and activate the copy of GTA V youobtained on Epic Games for it, make sure you sign out your old Social Clubaccount from Rockstar Games Launcher.

Steps to Do Upon Game Update

If an update for GTA V is available after you have used the above steps toshare the game files, then please perform the following steps for the newupdate:

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Update GTA V from one game platform (either Steam or Epic Games). We willdenote this platform as Platform A.
Copy GTA5.exe and PlayGTAV.exe under the game’s installation path tosomewhere else, and clearly label them as game files downloaded fromPlatform A.
Next, update GTA V from the other platform, which will be denoted asPlatform B.
Again, copy GTA5.exe and PlayGTAV.exe under the game’s installationpath to somewhere else, but label them as game files downloaded fromPlatform B this time.