(Hope that doesn't count as a swear in the title).

Anyway, i had to reinstall Steam because of the normal everyday glitches with it. I installed LOTR: War in the north on it, then i said to myself: ''I'll install Skyrim later''. Then i realized that my saves are all gone, because of reinstalling Steam. I was pissed off, reaching about level 40, 100 smithing and all, complete story, and other factions complete. So, i stopped playing Skyrim.

It was hard, but i made it. If some DLC comes out, i will definetly buy it though.

FUCK VAPOR!

Why not use cloud saves?

You saves are stored separately from the game (C:\Users\{username}\Documents\My Games\Skyrim)

Skyrim saves to my documents. Why would it delete them?

I should blame my own incompetence on a excellent piece of software

I'm with the others. What did Steam do? From your meager details I can't figure out how this is Steam's fault.

You're doing it wrong.

Off on the Steam support page - "please move the Steamapps folder (C:\Program Files\Steam\Steamapps) outside of the Steam directory to prevent your games from being deleted." That way you don't have to reinstall any of your games, you simply install steam and it re-constructs your library for you.

As for saves, there typically stored elsewhere (My Docs etc), sometimes you'll find them in that steamapps folder so again, backing that up saves a lot of hassle.

No sympathy here. RTFM.

Someone said it already, twice. So, I'll say it a third time. It's under your /documents folder. A folder that, because its the default directory for not just game saves, but files you work on, a place you backup regularly.

You can uninstall Steam all you like, uninstall the games, too. As long as you don't tell the game uninstaller to delete your saves, they'll be there.

When you find your saves in the /documents folder, back them up. Skyrim should know to look there for the save files. Delete all the files in the /documents/my games/skyrim directory, launch Skyrim. Save your game. That lone save file should get dumped to /documents/my games/skyrim. If it doesn't, well, that's odd. Find out where it -did- get saved to. Then, drop all your backup save files into the directory and fire up Skyrim. They should be available.

That's stupid. 
 
And it's not incompetence on the part of the user. 
 
"Oh, I should've known that it wouldn't work out of the box, I have to move my folder out of the Steam directory!" 
 
Why the heck should they be in such a place by default when it's obviously a dangerous place?

@Storms said:

That's stupid. And it's not incompetence on the part of the user. "Oh, I should've known that it wouldn't work out of the box, I have to move my folder out of the Steam directory!" Why the heck should they be in such a place by default when it's obviously a dangerous place?

Saves aren't in the Steam directory, they are in the my documents folder, where almost every game on the PC these days places saves.

The Steam directory move is only for not reinstalling entire games if you remove Steam.

Your an idiot shut up.

I stopped playing skyrim a long time ago. I don't blame steam though.

Steam puts your saves in Docs to prevent this sort of thing.

Grr Steam, ruined everything, but I'll still buy DLC from you!

That's dumb. If you don't like something, don't use it. And as others have said, you fucked up somewhere along the way, not Steam.

@scarace360 >Your an idiot shut up >Your http://j.mp/nRXCli

Guys seriously stop insulting the OP, it's not productive, it's against the forum rules, and it's not fucking cool.

I'd like to think GB is better then this.

I'M SO ANGRY
 
GRRRRR

What "Steam normal, everyday glitches" are we talking about here?

Also, yeah. Your Skyrim save files are in My Documents. Steam doesn't touch them, even if you uninstall Steam itself or the game game. I fail to see the problem here.

I thought games with cloud saves like Skyrim did it automatically. I know I see my game cloud saving or sometimes having trouble cloud saving.

That seems really weird, I've reinstalled Steam before and it did not touch my saves

I thought this game had cloud saves?

Doesn't Skyrim save to the cloud? So you can never lose your saves?

* Re-formats computer*

FUCK WINDOWS. All my programs and favorite pr0n is gone, what a piece of shit! Better hit the forums to warn others of this scourge!

@AngeTheDude said:

I thought this game had cloud saves?

@PenguinDust said:

I thought games with cloud saves like Skyrim did it automatically. I know I see my game cloud saving or sometimes having trouble cloud saving.

@CJduke said:

Doesn't Skyrim save to the cloud? So you can never lose your saves?

New Vegas does but for whatever reason Bethesda did not include the Steam Cloud functionality in Skyrim.

@Sooty said:

New Vegas does but for whatever reason Bethesda did not include the Steam Cloud functionality in Skyrim.

Just to reiterate, Skyrim doesn't have cloud saves.

On a related note, is there any setup involved in getting cloud saves to work on games that support it, or is it something that just works automagically?

That's your idiotic fault.

@Grimluck343 said:

@Sooty said:

New Vegas does but for whatever reason Bethesda did not include the Steam Cloud functionality in Skyrim.

Just to reiterate, Skyrim doesn't have cloud saves.

On a related note, is there any setup involved in getting cloud saves to work on games that support it, or is it something that just works automagically?

Settings/downloads+cloud/ tick the enable cloud sync option. This makes it default on for games that support it.

You can also enable/disable on a per game basis.

You fucked up, son.

You've all been trolled. OP hasn't replied back to a single post.

I'm angry the dude didn't even bother to reinstall Skyrim before bitching. I drank all the water in my glass, and I'm afraid that because there used to be ice in it, I'll never have ice again.

@RsistncE: It's not trolling, nobody is angry, he just made himself look super dumb.

@Tennmuerti said:

@Grimluck343 said:

@Sooty said:

New Vegas does but for whatever reason Bethesda did not include the Steam Cloud functionality in Skyrim.

Just to reiterate, Skyrim doesn't have cloud saves.

On a related note, is there any setup involved in getting cloud saves to work on games that support it, or is it something that just works automagically?

Settings/downloads+cloud/ tick the enable cloud sync option. This makes it default on for games that support it.

You can also enable/disable on a per game basis.

Thanks!

@ModerateViolence said:

@RsistncE: It's not trolling, nobody is angry, he just made himself look super dumb.

No one said he was a good troll.

READ A BOOK, READ A BOOK, READ A MOTHERFUCKIN' BOOK.

@wordfalling said:

@Grimluck343: I'm fairly certain Borderlands didn't have cloud saves at launch but now it does and the only setting to turn them off is within Steam itself.

Yeah hopefully they'll patch it in with the Construction Kit.

@N7 said:

FUCK VAPOR!

YEAH VAPOR IS SUCH A JERK! HATE THAT GUY!

Goodness me, people are losing their shit in this thread.

@TheHT said:

Goodness me, people are losing their shit in this thread.

People love their Steam. XD

Quick tip: console commands and mods

As a general warning for anyone who has to reinstall Steam or Windows, do NOT use the backup feature that is built into Steam to make a copy of your games. Please just do as the Steam support page says and copy your steamapps and userdata folders elsewhere.

The backup tool will a) fail repeatedly as you try and restore the games, and b) it will IGNORE GAMES YOU HAVE SELECTED FOR BACKUP ENTIRELY.

I had selected about 130GB of games to be backed up and when the file had finished backing up it was 93GB in size. I thought, "OK, it has just compressed the files a whole lot, that's cool." No, it wasn't cool. Turns out it just decided to not backup about seven of my games!

For everything Steam does right, that backup tool sure is a piece of shit.

I'm not going to jump onboard the nonsense train that some people in this thread decided to take a ride in, but seriously you should always backup saves directly whenever possible if it's a save you cherish enough. This is your own doing for being too trusting and honestly I have no idea how your saves got deleted in the first place as they are stored in your Documents folder. Make it a learning experience to remember to backup your stuff more effectively and to simply not be lazy about it, thinking it will all be fine. Finally I'm quoting this man as I definitely agree with it:

@Tennmuerti said:

Guys seriously stop insulting the OP, it's not productive, it's against the forum rules, and it's not fucking cool.

I'd like to think GB is better then this.

I say we all protest steam and play on Origin!

@mosdl said:

You saves are stored separately from the game (C:\Users\{username}\Documents\My Games\Skyrim)

The file ain't there.