Hi Hey Devs
Hi Devs! So I bought a new computer because the old one finally died. And I have lost all my saves. And since the Cloud doesn't pick those up, there's no backups. All my mining facilities, my Earth Planet. All my ships. Except for one little shuttle; all gone. I have the drive from that old PC. But I no longer have permissions to open or view the hidden files because I'm accessing the drive on my new PC. And there's some conflict. So; years of work, gone. Why not process saves like every other game on the planet? I'm honestly having a hard time motivating to play anymore since I'm literally back to square one. The only sure way to know my builds would be there would be to blueprint everything. My bad. But then, what's the point of saves? And why hide them? Bummed. I don't suppose you have a solution for this one? Tom
I have the same bug
Hello Tom,
We are sorry to hear that you are not able to recover your saves and understand how frustrating it must feel to lose years of progress and builds.
Based on the information provided, the saves are most likely still present on the old drive. Space Engineers stores world saves locally in the Windows AppData folder:
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves\
The AppData folder is hidden by Windows by default, and since the drive is now being accessed from a different Windows installation, the issue is most likely related to Windows file permissions/ownership rather than the saves themselves being deleted.
We recommend trying the following:
\Users\<OldUsername>\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves\
Please also check:
as these may also contain important data from your previous installation.
Please note that Space Engineers saves are primarily stored locally, and Steam Cloud does not fully back up world saves automatically.
Hopefully the save files are still accessible on the old drive and can be recovered successfully.
Please let us know whether the above steps helped or if you continue experiencing issues accessing the old save files.
Kind Regards,
Keen Software House: QA Department
Hello Tom,
We are sorry to hear that you are not able to recover your saves and understand how frustrating it must feel to lose years of progress and builds.
Based on the information provided, the saves are most likely still present on the old drive. Space Engineers stores world saves locally in the Windows AppData folder:
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves\
The AppData folder is hidden by Windows by default, and since the drive is now being accessed from a different Windows installation, the issue is most likely related to Windows file permissions/ownership rather than the saves themselves being deleted.
We recommend trying the following:
\Users\<OldUsername>\AppData\Roaming\SpaceEngineers\Saves\
Please also check:
as these may also contain important data from your previous installation.
Please note that Space Engineers saves are primarily stored locally, and Steam Cloud does not fully back up world saves automatically.
Hopefully the save files are still accessible on the old drive and can be recovered successfully.
Please let us know whether the above steps helped or if you continue experiencing issues accessing the old save files.
Kind Regards,
Keen Software House: QA Department
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