How to syncstore saves on Steam

Post » Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:25 am

Hey everyone. I've been reading help topics on this issue and trying different things myself, and I'm just not getting this to work. I mainly play Skryim at home, but sometimes during break at work, I like to play it on my work computer. However, my work computer seems to start on a different save point than my home computer does. It's never current.

I originally played Skyrim the first day with Steam set to online. Then, I took it offline when the internet connection wasn't working correctly with it at work and I saw no point in keeping Steam online. Well, I fixed the internet problem and have taken my Steam account back online, but my work computer seems to pick up at the spot where I originally left off right before I took my Steam account offline the first time. I hope that makes sense.

I've been trying to sync up my work computer ever since. Any ideas on how to do this?

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Eve(G)
 
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Post » Fri Dec 13, 2013 1:42 am

The Cloud Sync is not an elegant solution, and Save Lag is experienced. Probably because the Cloud Sync works best for save files that are smaller than the 15 to 20 MB files of this game. In fact, at one point, they disabled it for this game. I am surprised it came back to be quite honest.

Me, I would use a USB drive to move a save between platforms. It's not as elegant, but it works.

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Post » Fri Dec 13, 2013 12:20 am

Welcome the forums, but this probably more suited for SPUF (Steam Forums) (Or that godawful SPUD *shudders*).

Googling this brought up some stuff about Dropbox that might work too.

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Post » Fri Dec 13, 2013 7:06 am

Thank you very much, CCNA. I really appreciate your suggestion. I'll probably do just that, then. Glad to know I didn't do something wrong or that I was missing something obvious. lol. I saw some sites saying that Steam was bad to sync saves on, but they were a couple years old. So I thought that maybe this had been fixed by now. I'll just use a USB, then.

Divinus, I looked at this forum and saw that there were a lot of topics on Steam, so I figured that this would be the place to make the topic. And thanks about the Dropbox suggestion. :) I saw that in one of the sites I found yesterday, but a lot of people said that it was really slow.

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Post » Fri Dec 13, 2013 5:46 am

I think people who claim Dropbox is slow are complaining about uploads more than downloads. Most modems are slower on upload than down, so that can attribute to that. The few files I have pulled from Dropbox have come down at expected speeds.

Still not as fast as a USB stick.

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