Hi friends, I need help. I had files of ships, bases, and other things in several saves since 2016, but unfortunately there were problems and the saves were deleted from my PC. Do you happen to have a copy of my saves in your files? or lost forever. thanks.
I usually add ships I build in creative on my personal blueprints then to the workshop. It helps recover them if something like this. If you lost saves but didn't blueprint the ships in them, they might just be lost I'm afraid. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
Unless you uploaded them to the workshop or backed them up somewhere they are gone. Nobody else is going to have access to your personal save games or blueprints.
I made the blueprints, but they were private, they weren't published yet, they were on my private Steam workshop list. I just lost the backup on my PC. I lost game saves where I built these objects too. I expected my private list to be in the Eleon, or Steam, archives. I do not know what to do.
I made the blueprints, but they were private, they weren't published yet, they were on my private Steam workshop list. I just lost the backup on my PC. I lost game saves where I built these objects too. I expected my private list to be in the Eleon, or Steam, archives. I do not know what to do.
I don't understand this, how do I do this? There's only what I made public. Can I recover what is in private too? everything that was deleted from my desktop?
You go to your workshop page on Steam. All of your public, unlisted, friends-only, and private uploads will be there if you're logged in. Nobody else can do anything to help you. Your personal blueprints are stored on your hard drive, or on the Steam Workshop if you upload them.
When you "Save" a blueprint it is placed in local storage, available in new games to spawn. The "Publish" option under F2 puts it in cloud storage. Since it is local, Eleon can't help you- one thing worth trying would be to undelete it .. Microsoft provides this tool to (hopefully) find the release-to-os-but-not-yet-reused file and it's header info ... good luck!! Recover lost files on Windows 10 - Microsoft Support
The Win10 tool described in the article is still supported/works in Windows 11 ... if it can't find the file header in the disk's free list another 3rd party tool may be able to. To find a 3rd party file undelete tool doing a google search on "windows 11 undelete" may give you more useful info but the undelete approach is a last chance method that isn't guaranteed to work ... once placed on the free list the space for a deleted file can be reused which means "lost and gone forever" for any time/effort you put into the file's contents. If your disk is nearly full, then the odds of success drop based on how much you are using the machine- that's where the "good luck" part comes in. Going forward, Windows also supports a file history mechanism (google on that for info) that saves these pointers. This isn't as secure as a formal backup, and you need to turn it on as there is overhead associated with it. In any case, you want to keep free space on the drive (~20-40% of capacity) to increase your odds of recovery. A 90%+ full drive is like walking on the edge of a cliff as far as data security and disk performance goes. I'm over 60 and should know better given the # of times I've been bit by not having a backup but this is why they always tell you to back everything up; at this point hitting the publish button on Empyrion blueprints is burned in for me. The space used is covered by your Steam account, so the only real cost is bandwidth with your ISP.
Yes always save your blueprints and back up your blueprints! This goes for any projects you work on that you can't risk losing.
