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Project P.I.T.T. Steam Cloud Conflict — Safe Checks

Steam Cloud Conflict — Safe Checks: Choose neither side blindly.

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Choose neither side blindly. Preserve the local folder and identify which saved state contains the progress you intend to keep before resolving Steam's conflict.

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Isolate the failure
Preserve the useful evidence
What the source supports
Evidence and verification limits

Isolate the failure

Close the game so it cannot write another save while you compare devices, modification times and known last-played progress. Keep an independent copy outside the synchronized folder.

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Preserve the useful evidence

If the two candidates are ambiguous, cancel and retain them. Cloud synchronization is not versioned disaster recovery and cannot be promised to repair an already overwritten save.

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What the source supports

The Steam UFS configuration names Windows, macOS and Linux roots plus save, backup and configuration file patterns. Configuration-derived locations, not a tested restore or corruption repair.

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OFFICIAL HISTORICAL · checked 2026-09-26

The Steam UFS configuration names Windows, macOS and Linux roots plus save, backup and configuration file patterns.

Build relevance: Configuration mirrored by SteamDB, checked September 26

Limit: Configuration-derived locations, not a tested restore or corruption repair.

Steam app cloud-save configuration, mirrored by SteamDB ↗ Steamworks — Auto-Cloud roots and overrides ↗

Sources: Steam app cloud-save configuration, mirrored by SteamDB ↗ · Steamworks — Auto-Cloud roots and overrides ↗

Evidence and verification limits

Source retrieval confirms what a source says, not a new in-game replay. Patch notes retain their version; community observations retain their limitations.