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Steam synchronizes many salve files to its servers. They're automatically downloaded via Steam when you install a game, but that's not the only way you can get them. You tin can download them directly from Valve's website in your browser, too.

Enable Steam Cloud Sync in Steam

If Steam isn't automatically downloading your old salve games after you install a game, ensure Steam Cloud is enabled for that game within Steam.

To do so, locate the game in your Steam library, right-click it, and then select "Properties." Click the "General" tab and ensure the "Go on games saves in the Steam Deject for Game" option is checked for the game. If this option isn't checked, Steam won't automatically download your cloud saves—or upload whatsoever new ones.

Make sure "General" tab is selected, then click "Keep games saves in the steam cloud for Game."

If you don't see a Steam Cloud choice for a game here, that game doesn't support Steam Cloud. Not all games on Steam do—it's up to each game developer.

Download the Files in Your Spider web Browser

Valve lets you download your Steam cloud save files via a web browser, besides. You can download just your save files without re-downloading the entire game.

To find your save files, visit Valve's View Steam Cloud page in your web browser and sign in with your Steam account.

Y'all'll come across a list of games using your Steam Cloud storage. Locate the game in the list—and click "Testify Files" to encounter all the files for a game.

Tip: Press Ctrl+F (Cmd+F on a Mac) to use your browser's born search tool and search for the proper noun of the game.

List of Steam Cloud's saved games on the web.

Each game has a page showing all the files it'southward storing in Steam Cloud, as well as the date they were modified. To download a file, click "Download." Download all the save files for your game, and you lot'll have a copy of its save games.

Click "Download" next to each save file you want.

This is specially useful for multi-platform games that don't automatically synchronize save files betwixt platforms.

For example, Borderlands 2 is available for both PC and Mac. It synchronizes its save files with Steam Cloud, but both the PC and Mac versions sync save files separately. You can download the Mac (or PC) versions from Steam'southward website, and then manually import them into the correct binder to move your Borderlands ii save games between platforms.

Without using the website, this would crave downloading Borderlands 2 on one platform, extracting your relieve games, and then downloading the game on a second platform!

This is a known problem for other games, also—for example, information technology besides seems to be required when moving save games from Torchlight for Windows to Torchlight for Linux.

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