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Re: Moved Steam and GOG to Win10 from Win7 (dual boot) and games are listed but not game files

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From: PW
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:28
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 03:16:55 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
(Ross Ridge) wrote:

><noemail...@noaddress.com> wrote:
>>Steam in Win10  says I am 52 hours into Skyrim but the load a game
>>option is disabled.  Only start a new game is enabled.  I am afraid to
>>do that.
>
>Skyrim puts its save game files in:
>
>	 C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves
>
>where <yourname> is your user name on Windows.  So find that directory
>on your Windows 7 drive and copy everything it to the location above on
>your Windows 10 drive.  It'll probaby easier if you boot into Windows 10,
>search through all your drives until you find Windows 7 save files and
>then copy the files to directory named above.

*---
That worked too!  I just had to figure out what Win10 renamed my
drives to (J = Win7 C).

>
>>GOG:  Installed GOG Galaxy but although all my games are listed, GOG
>>is downloading them all and I have to start a new game (such as
>>Witcher 3) also. For some stupid reason (probably due to curiosity) I
>>started a new game and that is just what happened.  I have to go
>>through training all over again. I know I was way into it.
>>
>>Where are my save games?
>
>For Witcher 3 they're stored in:
>
>	 C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\The Witcher 3
>
>You can copy them over the same with as with Skyrim.  
>
>Other game may store their save files in other places.  You can try
>using Google to find out where.
>
>					Ross Ridge

*---

Worked!!!

Thanks Ross!  You saved me a bunch of more time Googling only to find
nothing.  Now onto Doom!

-paul
-pw
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