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For non steam games how do you sync saves between Steam Deck and Desktop? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by NightOwl@lemmy.one to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have Syncthing installed via pacman (since flatpaks cannot keep a daemon running). For every game that I care about, I find its save file, move it to a sync dir, and symlink it back to where it is expected. My savegame sync folder has folders for the many varied places that games like to hide their saves - "gamedir", local, locallow, "my documents", dot_config, etc. The most fun part is finding out where the appropriate proton prefix is.

If I was starting over again, there's a decky loader plugin that looks promising.

[–] fazo96@lemmy.trippy.pizza 1 points 1 year ago

I have the same setup, but I am using the flatpak version of syncthing. It can run a daemon just fine, however I am running a user systems service. Works great and starts automatically in both desktop and game modes

[–] Helvedeshunden 7 points 1 year ago

Syncthing and/or Warpinator.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

By exclusively playing on Steam Deck there is no need to sync anything ;)

[–] minutnudler@feddit.dk 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't done this for game saves but you could probably use syncthing for this.

[–] SurfingPikachu@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

I use syncthing for automatic transfer of emulation saves. It's pretty fantastic

[–] Fubarberry@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a decky extension that will automatically backup game saves to various cloud storage types.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Oh I love decky. I'd love something automated that doesn't need me to go into desktop mode so I'll look for that.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

I moved a Jubilee save from my Windows desktop to the Steam Deck once.

Never again. It's a hassle. I ended up only playing it on the Steam Deck henceforth.

[–] Bjoern_Tantau@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Depends. Many games from Epic have that built in. For everything else I use Nextcloud. I think most people use Syncthing.

[–] quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Resilio Sync and Symlinks