Cara Menghapus Simpanan Awan Steam

Steam Cloud menyediakan cara yang mudah dan telus untuk menyimpan data permainan anda pada sistem penyimpanan jauh. Fail yang ditentukan dalam konfigurasi Cloud-Auto atau jika ditulis ke disk akan secara automatik ditiru ke pelayan awan Steam (menggunakan Cloud API) setelah permainan ada.

Ini amat berguna sekiranya pengguna menukar komputernya. Kemajuan permainan akan disambung semula oleh Cloud API atau membaca terus dari cakera. Fail akan dimuat secara automatik sebelum permainan dilancarkan kerana anda sudah memasukkan kelayakan Steam anda. Tugas utama Steam Cloud adalah memastikan semua fail diselaraskan di semua komputer yang digunakan pengguna.

Pengguna mempunyai pilihan untuk melumpuhkan keseluruhan penyegerakan Cloud yang ada dalam Tetapan Steam pada klien. Pengguna juga mempunyai fleksibiliti untuk menonaktifkan penyegerakan Cloud setiap permainan. Tetapi sebelum meneruskan penyelesaian, kemas kini pelanggan Steam ke versi terkini.

Apakah Kaedah Pelbagai Penggunaan Cloud Steam?

Steam menawarkan dua kaedah berbeza untuk memanfaatkan Steam Cloud.

Yang pertama adalah Steam Cloud API. Cloud API menyediakan rangkaian fungsi yang membolehkan anda mengintegrasikan Steam Cloud secara langsung ke dalam permainan anda. Cloud API juga melakukan tugas mengasingkan fail pengguna Steam antara satu sama lain dan juga memberikan kawalan yang lebih baik terhadap Steam Cloud secara keseluruhan.

Yang kedua ialah Steam Auto-Cloud. Fungsi ini terutamanya dirancang untuk permainan lama yang sukar menggunakan Cloud API. Ini adalah cara cepat untuk memulakan dengan Steam Cloud tetapi tidak memiliki fleksibiliti dan kekuatan yang disediakan oleh Steam Cloud API.

Dianjurkan oleh pemaju untuk menggunakan Cloud API dan bukannya Steam Auto-Cloud kerana menyediakan penyatuan dan penyesuaian yang lebih mendalam dan berkesan. Ini membolehkan anda memanfaatkan sepenuhnya Steam cloud.

Bagaimana Saya Menyelesaikan Konflik Awan Steam?

Konflik Steam Cloud berlaku apabila kandungan Steam Cloud tidak sepadan dengan fail permainan tempatan anda yang disimpan di cakera keras anda. Ini boleh berlaku pada mesin yang anda gunakan pada masa itu atau mungkin pernah berlaku pada mesin lain sebelumnya. Kerana fail diubahsuai di dua lokasi yang berbeza tanpa penyegerakan di antara mereka, Steam tidak dapat menentukan fail mana yang harus disimpan.

Anda kemungkinan besar akan memilih fail yang telah diubahsuai baru-baru ini. Bermakna perkembangan terbaru dalam permainan anda akan disimpan. Anda harus memeriksa dengan teliti data yang dilihat di tetingkap. Periksa dengan teliti tarikh dan waktu konteksnya dan sesuai dengan ini terakhir kali anda bermain permainan di Steam. Konteks ini dapat membantu anda dalam menentukan versi mana yang harus disimpan.

Perhatikan bahawa bermain permainan dalam mod luar talian akan mengelakkan permainan anda disegerakkan dan ini adalah kemungkinan penyebab Steam Cloud konflik.

Bagaimana Sekiranya Steam Tidak Dapat Menyegerakkan Fail ke Awan?

Kesalahan ini menunjukkan bahawa Steam tidak dapat menyegerakkan fail tempatan anda dengan Steam Cloud. Ini boleh menjadi masalah sementara yang mungkin dihadapi pelayan Steam Cloud. Anda boleh menyemak status Steam Cloud dari laman web Steam untuk memastikan bahawa masalah ada di pihak mereka.

Sekiranya perkhidmatan Steam cloud beroperasi dengan sempurna, ini bermakna masalahnya sudah selesai. Anda boleh memeriksa sambungan Steam dan menyelesaikan masalah. Anda juga dapat memeriksa jika hanya anda yang menghadapi masalah untuk menyegerakkan dengan Steam Cloud.

Sekiranya anda mengabaikan mesej dan mengklik "Mainkan permainan", itu dapat menyebabkan konflik yang berpotensi antara fail tempatan anda dan Steam Cloud. Ia juga boleh mengakibatkan kehilangan data kemajuan dan permainan.

Bagaimana Sekiranya Saya Kehilangan Fail atau Kemajuan Setelah Pindah ke Komputer Lain?

Sekiranya anda kehilangan kemajuan terbaru anda dan periksa semula bahawa permainan menggunakan Steam Cloud menggunakan Tetapan, ini bermaksud sama ada Steam tidak dapat menyegerakkan data anda dengan jayanya atau penyegerakan tersebut mengakibatkan data sebelumnya anda dimuat ke Awan.

Ada kemungkinan bahawa fail asal atau kemajuan anda masih ada pada mesin lama dan tidak dapat disegerakkan. Mungkin jika anda melancarkan Steam di komputer itu, kemajuan anda akan ditunjukkan. Sekiranya berlaku, ia akan dikemas kini secara automatik pada semua mesin lain yang bersambung dengan akaun Steam anda.

Juga, banyak permainan tidak menggunakan kemudahan Steam Cloud. Anda boleh menyemak halaman rasmi permainan jika sokongan Steam Cloud tersedia. Sekiranya tidak dan anda tidak mempunyai akses ke mesin lama, ini bermakna kemajuan anda hilang dan tidak ada cara untuk memulihkannya.

Bagaimana Menghapus Fail yang Disimpan di Steam Cloud Server?

Steam Cloud digunakan untuk membuat cadangan setiap kemajuan permainan anda agar anda tidak kehilangan kemajuan jika anda mengakses permainan dari komputer lain. Anda boleh mengesahkan bahawa kemajuan anda disimpan oleh Cloud menggunakan kaedah berikut.

Periksa sama ada Permainan Anda Disandarkan.

  1. Buka pelanggan Steam anda . Buka Tetapannya dengan menekan butang Steam yang terdapat di sudut kiri atas tetingkap dan memilih pilihan.
  2. Buka tab Awan yang ada di sebelah kiri skrin. Periksa apakah pilihan " Aktifkan sinkronisasi Steam Cloud untuk aplikasi yang menyokongnya " dicentang.
  3. Klik seterusnya pada tab Library yang terdapat di bahagian atas klien Steam. Di sini semua permainan anda akan disenaraikan.
  4. Klik kanan pada permainan dan pilih Properties . Kemudian arahkan ke tab Kemas kini yang terdapat di bahagian atas tetingkap.
  5. Di sini di bahagian bawah tetingkap, Anda akan melihat pilihan " Aktifkan sinkronisasi Steam Cloud untuk [nama permainan] ". Pastikan bahawa pilihan dicentang .

Sekiranya anda mempunyai kedua-dua pilihan diaktifkan, ini bermakna permainan anda disandarkan oleh Steam Cloud dan kami juga dapat menghapus datanya.

Apakah Mekanisme Sandaran?

Perkara pertama yang harus anda ketahui ialah terdapat tiga versi data permainan yang disimpan

  • Versi asal disimpan dalam folder AppData ( D1 ).
  • Versi awan disimpan di lokasi Steam / userdata / SteamID / AppID ( D2 ).
  • Versi awan yang disimpan di pelayan awan Steam ( D3 ).

Perhatikan anotasi (D1, D2, D3) yang kami gunakan kerana kami akan banyak merujuk pada masa depan.

When you start the game for the first time, D1 is created automatically. After you are done playing the game, the game data is updated in D1 and automatically copied to D2. After this D2 is then synced to D3, thus uploading all of your game content.

If you start your game from another computer for the first time, if Steam has D3 on its servers but doesn’t detect D2 on the computer, it will automatically download the data and copy D3 to D2. Steam Cloud also automatically downloads the missing data whenever you start Steam.

In a nutshell, the most important data for us is D2. If we can manipulate it, we can successfully delete the data which you want to delete.

Note: Some games don’t have D1 and they directly save their data to D2. While some games don’t use D2 as a medium and upload the data to the Cloud directly from D1.

What Are the Userdata Contents?

In the directory Steam/userdata, you should have a folder corresponding to your SteamID (You check what your Steam ID is by reading our article on it). After you open it, there will folders made for each game that you play. They will be identified using their AppID (AppID can be easily checked by visiting the game in the Steam store and extracting it from the URL). In this game folder, you will find two entities.

  • remotecache.vdf: This file describes all the properties of files that are contained in the remote folder.
  • Remotefolder. This contains all the files which are synced with your Steam Cloud server.

Deleting Data from Cloud

In this method, we will be following two important steps. We will first bring up the Steam Cloud conflict notification and then delete the Cloud files.

Do note that you would have to follow these steps game by game to delete all of the Steam cloud content.

First, we need to delete the AppID folder from your Steam directory. After you restart your computer and Steam, Steam will automatically re-create the folder. We need to perform this step to ensure that the Steam Cloud is working perfectly and we can go ahead with the part of deletion.

  1. Open your Steam directory. The default location for your Steam installation is
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam
  2. Search for a folder of AppID and Delete it. Then restart your computer and Steam. Start a game for a few minutes. Make sure that you have a working internet connection.
  3. Navigate back to the Steam directory and check if the AppID folder is back. If it is, it is confirmed that your Steam Cloud is working perfectly and we can proceed with the method.

Bringing Up Steam Cloud Conflict Dialogue

The first part of the solution is probably the most difficult. To delete all your Steam Cloud data, it is necessary to bring the conflict dialogue. Without it is not possible to delete the data present in your Cloud. Steam Cloud conflict occurs when the Cloud files differ from the data present on your hard drive.

There are two methods to bring about this conflict:

Method 1:

  1. Make sure that your Steam Cloud is enabled by following the steps mentioned above. Exit Steam completely by ending all the processes starting with Steamclientbootstrapper using the task manager.
  2. Now will alter all the files in the location
    Steam\userdata\SteamID\AppID\remote

The objective is to make sure that all the files are different from those uploaded to the Steam cloud. We can’t simply delete the files from this location as Steam will automatically notice that the files are missing and download the same ones from the Cloud servers. We can achieve our task by corrupting them and making them 0-byte files.

  1. Navigate to
    Steam\userdata\SteamID\AppID\remote
  2. Now hold shift and right-click on your remote folder. Select the option “Open PowerShell window here”.
  3. You can also open PowerShell when in the folder by clicking the File option present at the top left side of the screen and selecting “Open Windows PowerShell as administrator”.
  4. Once PowerShell is opened, type the exact text written below
clc –path “C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\SteamID\AppID\remote\*"

If you fail to write the correct code, you will get an error like this

If you correctly type in the line there will be no confirmatory message and you will get a window like this.

Start your Steam and there will be the conflict windows present on your Steam client.

Method 2:

This is an easier method as compared to the earlier one but it isn’t that efficient.

  1. Open your Steam client. Open its Settings by pressing the Steam button present at the top left corner of the window and selecting the option.
  2. Open the Cloud tab present on the left side of the screen. Uncheck the option “Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for the applications which support it”.
  3. Now navigate to your Stream directory as you did earlier and delete all files present in the folder of AppID. The file path for deletion is
    Steam\userdata\SteamID\AppID.
  4. Now start the game to make new and different files in the file location.
  5. Exit the game and Steam completely by ending all Steam processes in the task manager (end steamclientbootstrapper first).
  6. Now delete the remotecache.vdf file present in the location
    Steam\userdata\SteamID\AppID
  7. Start your Steam.
  8. Head over to the client’s Settings and enable the cloud.

Now a Steam conflict dialogue will come forth and we can proceed with the remaining method.

Deleting Cloud files

Once the Cloud conflict error is forth, don’t click any option and follow the instructions below.

  1. Navigate to the following file path
    Steam\userdata\SteamID\AppID 

    and delete all the files in it. There will be two files (remote folder and remotecache.vdf). Delete both of them.

  2. Now go back to the conflict window and select the option of “Upload to the Steam Cloud”. Now Steam will sync your AppID folder while there will be nothing in it and the previous data on your Steam Cloud will be deleted.
  3. Now the game will start automatically but it will create new files that will be synced to your Steam cloud when you close it. We can prevent it from happening by pressing alt + tab. This will open the open windows on your screen. Select the Steam client from the list of windows.
  4. Once you are in the Steam client, open the client’s Settings. Navigate to the Cloud tab and uncheck the line which enables cloud.
  5. Now return to the game and exit. No files will be synced to your Steam cloud.
  6. Exit Steam and delete the AppID folder as we did before.

How to Make Sure If it Worked?

Remember how we checked at the beginning of this method if the Steam Cloud was running as expected by deleting the AppID folder and checking if it was made again. If there is no file present in the Steam cloud, there will be no file downloaded to your computer.

  1. Enable the Steam cloud as we did in the guide.
  2. Exit Steam completely by using the task manager.
  3. Delete the AppID folder (if you didn’t in step 2).
  4. Now check D3 (these are the cloud files) and compare them with D2 (local files on your computer). If there is nothing in D3, there will be nothing in D2 too!
  5. Check the following directory Steam\userdata\SteamID

No new AppID folder would have been created.

You can also check by logging Steam in on another computer and checking if the files exist.

If you make it till here without any problems, you have successfully deleted all the files on your Steam Cloud.

How to Delete Steam Cloud Saves from OS X

The procedures above can also be replicated on OS X and older Macs to a slight extent. By following the steps below, you will be able to delete your local saves. You can then disable the Steam Cloud synchronization from the Steam application, start a new game and create a few new saves. Then, when you return to re-enable the Steam Cloud synchronization features, the client will ask you which saves do you want to use. You can then choose the new ones which will delete and replace your old saves from the cloud.

To make things even clearer, here’s a step-by-step guide through the whole thing:

  1. Open your Steam application and go to Steam > Settings via the ribbon at the top of the window.
  2. In the settings menu, click on the Cloud tab and uncheck the box associated with Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for applications that support it.
  3. Close Steam completely and open your Finder app.
  4. Go to Library > Application Support > Steam > SteamApps > Common and open the folder of whichever game you want to delete the save files.
  5. Next, open the SAVE folder to reveal the saves of the game.

    Note: If the location specified above doesn’t land you to the save files, try the following locations but mind the placeholders:

    Users / *Your username* /Library / Application Support / *Game Folder* / Game Documents / *Game* / GameSaves Users/ *Your username* / Library / Application Support / Steam / userdata / *GameNumber* / remote Users/ *Your username* / Library / Containers / *Game Folder* / Data /Library / Application Support / *Game* / GameDocuments / *Game* / gamesaves
  6. Once you manage to identify and delete the local saves from the game you’re targeting, open the Game and create a few new saves.
  7. Exit the game, open steam and return to Steam > Settings > Cloud. From the cloud tab, re-enable the checkbox next to Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for applications which support it and click the OK button below.
  8. Steam will ask you whether you want to use the newly created local saves or the ones that you already have on the cloud. Choosing to use the new ones will delete the old saves that you currently have on Steam Cloud.