My recent savegames disappeared

[Cotix]

Hello,

I was playing on my city a few days ago and I wanted to save the game before closing it. I tried saving the game in a Steam cloud file (or whatever it's called), but it wouldnt let me and gave me an error, I don't remember what it really said but it did say that it left a text file in the game files. I tried saving the game without the Steam cloud file, that did work and I closed the game, I looked for the text file, but I didnt find anything.
Today I wanted to play the game again, but I didn't see any recent save files from the city, the only savegame I saw of the city was from 2019 from basically right when I started building that city. All of the autosave files were gone too. I tried opening the savegame from the launcher with the resume button, it did show the autosave of the city when I hovered my mouse on it, but when I clicked it it didn't send me to that city, it sent me to a completely other city's savegame I abandoned months ago.

I would appreciate any help given, I don't want to lose my city which I spent months on.

 

[AndrewT]

If you are sure the save was in the Steam cloud, not local, it should show here:

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store.steampowered.com

And a local cached copy should be here:
...\Steam\userdata\YourSteamID\255710\

Saves end in .crp , temporary ones in .ccs .

 

[Cotix]

I saw no saves of the city, no autosaves either. All of the city's saves (exept one) just disappeared for no reason.

 

[AndrewT]

I am sorry that happened but I have no idea why!

You are sure they were cloud saves, not local?

 

[Cotix]

When I make manual saves i usually make them cloud saves. Autosaves should all have been local.

 

[AndrewT]

Local saves and autosaves are in:
...\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\saves\

None there either, are you saying?

 

[Cotix]

There is nothing recent there exept a folder that was last modified on 22. may which i believe was the last time i played on the city. The folder is called Temp and inside it is a file called 8f1eabb8-990b-4a11-8173-2506721be8c7.ccs

 

[AndrewT]

Okay then, rename that file to end in .crp instead of .ccs and move it out of the Temp folder to ...\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\saves\

Hopefully it is intact!

 

[Cotix]

Nothing changed, there is no new save of the city.

 

[AndrewT]

I should have said, you need to go into Content Manager-savegames and enable it. Then it should show in the Load menu.

 

[Cotix]

It wasn't on the savegames page as well. I clicked enable all, didn't show anything new in the load menu.

 

[AndrewT]

Oh really? It must be corrupted then ... I don't know how that happened to you, sorry!

If you like you can attach it here and I can test it on my installation, but I have to say it does not look good ...

 

[Cotix]

It's not the end of the world for me if I lose the city forever, that city was actually made because I wanted to test out the DLCs when i got them for Christmas. It is one of my best cities though so im only just a bit upset. Thank you for trying your best to help me though!

You can try if the file works for your game VVV

 

[AndrewT]

My game doesn't see that save file either, so I'm afraid it's dead.

I wish I knew how that happened to you ... I'm very sorry about that!

 

[Avanya]

Are you using any mods to create saves/autosaves? I know there are some old autosave mods, which aren't working and have caused issues for others.

 

[Cotix]

I don't have any mods like that.