Steam moved my saved games

[euclid]

I'm a tad biased when it comes to Steam. If possible I play offline and have disabled cloud ever since it overwrote my X3TC saved games (hence destroyed many hours of my game play). The Steam launcher is installed on the G drive (M.2) but several games are installed on different drives. All the saved games are located in the corresponding save folder in the C: > .... > documents folder.

Now for almost a year (playing other games in between) I'm building a major settlement (own mod that overlaps Red Rocket and Sanctuary build/sandbox areas) in Fallout 4 which is located on the D drive (another M.2). I had not played it for like 3 weeks and after the Steam update today I thought to check it out and continue the build. To my surprise all .fos files disappeared! It took me some time to find them. Steam moved them to the G drive (where the Steam launcher is located), under Steam > userdata > .... > WinMyDocuments > MyGames > Fallout 4.

For now only FO4 saved games were moved. Has anyone encountered that, too, maybe with other games? Is this a "normal" Steam feature or do I miss something?

Cheers Euclid

[felter]

The save files that you have found aren't the original save files, as far as I can tell, they are backup files of the original save files. My save files for Fallout 4 are in Documents\My Games\Fallout4\Saves, but they are also in the location you pointed too, so your original files should be your Documents\My Games\Fallout4\Saves wherever you have that, I know I haven't always had them on my C drive as you can move it under the properties location tab for documents.

[euclid]

Thanks for the info, felter. Good to know that there is an "auto backup" folder.

My document folder always was on the C drive and I never moved it. So I wonder why all the .fos files disappeared.

Cheers Euclid