Steam Cloud is a file sharing service, allowing games that support it to access their data from any machine running the Steam client. Saves, settings, profiles, and similar data can be stored by games that support it.
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Can I get my Steam categories back?
During the Holiday sales, I logged in to Steam on a different computer (one powerful enough to actually run my games :). When I logged back in on my notebook, all of my categories except one were ...
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What games save to the Steam Cloud?
Which games (except Torchlight) store the current state of the game to the Steam cloud?
What is the Steam Cloud?
Steam is Valve's online game purchasing and digital delivery service/platform. Steam ...
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How can I tell if a Steam game syncs my saved games to the Steam Cloud?
I've already seen this question and this one, but neither explicitly tells me whether a particular game syncs saved game files to the Steam Cloud.
Do all Steam games with Steam Cloud enabled ...
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What does it mean if it shows a question mark over the Steam Cloud icon?
Looking at my games in List View, I noticed that it shows a question mark over some of them with whether or not they support the Steam Cloud.
What does this mean?
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Syncing multiple Torchlight 2 Characters across multiple computers
As far as I know Torchlight 2 has Steam Cloud support, so you can sync your save games across multiple computers. Is it possible to play one character on one computer and an alternate character on ...
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Is there a quick way to delete saves off of the steam cloud?
I've been playing a Endless Space for a while now, and I've got quite a few saves saved up... Any way I can clean house and mass delete the ones I no longer need?
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Studying abroad; Steam saves lost
I'm studying abroad for this semester, and I've noticed that all my Steam save games are gone. I don't use Steam very much, only for a small set of games like Torchlight, so I'm not well-versed on how ...
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Transferring saved games between steam accounts
My wife started playing Plants vs Zombies on my account. Now I'd like her to have it on her own account (so that her steam sesion wouldn't interfere with mine). I've found that question: Can I ...
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Is play time shared across PS3 and PC?
If I am playing Portal 2 on a PS3 activated with my Steam account, does play time get added to my stats in the same way as trophies/achievements?
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Skyrim - Crashed Hard disk lost all local saves, steam cloud backed up nothing?
I've put many hours into skyrim but recently lost all my local save game files in my documents etc, to a Hard Drive crash.
I reinstalled Skyrim hoping that steam cloud had something I could salvage ...
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How much available space per game in the Steam Cloud?
Is there a way to find out how much available space does a game have in the Steam Cloud (it seems that this varies depending on the game)? Also, is there a way to see how much of the available space ...
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How do I force a game to download saves Puzzle Quest from the Steam Cloud?
I have Puzzle Quest on Steam, and it supports Steam Cloud. I know that I had a save file in this game, but when I installed it and tried to play it, I did not have my saved game.
I tried to uncheck ...
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DOTA2 keeps forgetting my region
When ever I launch DOTA2 I have to reset the region, however I didn't have to do this on my laptop?
Any ideas what maybe causing this?
(I don't use any autoexec options)
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Steam Cloud with two Steam accounts on one Windows account
My boyfriend and I both play most of our games through Steam. I recently wanted to play a game that we both own on his desktop, logged into his Windows account, but using my Steam account and getting ...
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Prevent steamcloud updating keyboard config
I have a desktop computer with a big keyboard and a laptop with a laptop keyboard (both Macs). I'm left handed so I tend to configure the numeric keypad to do what the WSAD keys normally do so I can ...
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How to delete old DotA 2 item builds created before the guide system?
With the patch from 20 February the new guide system is online which provides skill builds and item builds. I have been using the online tool to create those builds, but my old itembuilds saved in ...
