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How to sync your saved PC games between computers & dropbox
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Step One: One: Locate Your Game Saves
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The first step is easy: figure out where your games store their save files. It's different for every game, but most games store this data in My Documents (either in the My Documents folder or in a "My Games" file within it). If you aren't sure, Google around for your specific game to find out where its save files are.
Step Two: Move Your Save Folders to Dropbox
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Let's say we want to move our saves for Darksiders, which reside in C:\Users\user\Documents\My Games\Darksiders. Create a folder in your Dropbox for game saves and copy that "Darksiders" folder to it. You should see that it quickly syncs with Dropbox, which means your saves are now available on all your computers.
Step Three: Create Symbolic Links on All Your Computers
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Next, we'll need to point each computer to Dropbox for those saves. Rename or delete the game's original save folder (now that it's in Dropbox) and open a Command Prompt as an administrator and run the following command: mklink /D "C:\Users\user\Documents\My Games\Darksiders" "C:\Users\Whitson\Dropbox\Game Saves\Darksiders"
Replace the first file path with the path to your game's original save folder, and the second file path with the path to your new Dropbox save folder.
Press enter, and it should create the symlink for you. To double check, head back to the original save folder and you should see a shortcut to the new location. Check out the video at the top of this post to see this step in action.
Repeat this process on all your computers, so that whenever you start up the gameno matter what PC you're onyour game gets redirected to the files in your Dropbox folder.
Step Four: Game On
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The first step is easy: figure out where your games store their save files. It's different for every game, but most games store this data in My Documents (either in the My Documents folder or in a "My Games" file within it). If you aren't sure, Google around for your specific game to find out where its save files are.
Step Two: Move Your Save Folders to Dropbox
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Let's say we want to move our saves for Darksiders, which reside in C:\Users\user\Documents\My Games\Darksiders. Create a folder in your Dropbox for game saves and copy that "Darksiders" folder to it. You should see that it quickly syncs with Dropbox, which means your saves are now available on all your computers.
Step Three: Create Symbolic Links on All Your Computers
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Next, we'll need to point each computer to Dropbox for those saves. Rename or delete the game's original save folder (now that it's in Dropbox) and open a Command Prompt as an administrator and run the following command: mklink /D "C:\Users\user\Documents\My Games\Darksiders" "C:\Users\Whitson\Dropbox\Game Saves\Darksiders"
Replace the first file path with the path to your game's original save folder, and the second file path with the path to your new Dropbox save folder.
Press enter, and it should create the symlink for you. To double check, head back to the original save folder and you should see a shortcut to the new location. Check out the video at the top of this post to see this step in action.
Repeat this process on all your computers, so that whenever you start up the gameno matter what PC you're onyour game gets redirected to the files in your Dropbox folder.
Step Four: Game On
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