Help with Backup Saves

Conan Exiles PC Discussion
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Before the update, I was playing on a solo single-player save. Since the game previously only allowed one character/save at a time, I used to make backups of my Saved folder and swap between them manually by copy-pasting and overriding the folder whenever I wanted to switch characters/worlds.

Before updating, I made a backup of my saves as recommended.

After the update, only my Exiled Lands character was migrated successfully. My Siptah character did not migrate, although that is not my main concern right now.

The issue is that I can no longer restore or switch to any of my backup saves. I tried my usual process:

  • Copy backup Saved folder

  • Paste and override the current folder

  • Relaunch the game

Normally, this would load the other character/save, but after the update, the same migrated character continued to appear, no matter which backup I restored.

I attempted this multiple times with different backups and got the same result every time.

I then deleted the migrated character, thinking the game maybe required an empty slot before importing another save, but now that character is gone as well, and I still cannot get any of my backups to appear in-game.

At this point, it seems like the game is ignoring my restored Saved folders entirely and continuing to use some form of migrated or cached data instead.

Has anyone experienced this, or is there a way to properly restore/import old single-player backups after the update?

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Yeah, I dropped a backed up save file into place with no problems. Step one, don’t overwrite the whole save folder (my guess would be that’s where your problems are coming from - there’s probably something in there that the new version of the game needs).

Instead the only file you need from your backup folder is game.db (or just ‘game’ if your machine no longer shows file extensions, which mine has stopped doing, because Microsoft likes to hide stuff, lol).

Find the new save folder (should be where you left it unless you deleted the whole folder - in which case you might need to start a fresh character just to get the save files started again - if that doesn’t work, you’ll need to verify the files through steam to get it to give you a correct save folder back where it belongs).

Then go to that folder and replace ‘game_0.db’ with your old save ‘game.db’ and rename that to ‘game_0.db’. You should then have your old save updated to your new game. (Basically, they changed the name of game.db to game_0.db.)

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Thank you so much, man. I got my backup save back and can finally continue where I left off.

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No worries, glad it worked for you :slight_smile: . If in future you want to manually swap between saves the way you used to (which is less likely now since the game will let you do three of them as it is), just remember the only bit you need to swap is the one file (game_0.db) and you should have no future problems.
(I haven’t tested it, but I’m expecting that characters two and three will probably result in game_1.db and game_2.db - not to be mistaken for game_0_backup_1 etc. )

Incidentally - if you ever want to rollback to an earlier timestamp on the same savegame, you can do that by manually renaming (eg) game_0_backup_8 (or whichever one is closest to the desired timestamp) to be game_0 and it’ll take you back to the point you were at when it made the auto-backup.