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FishPond  [developer] 18 Feb, 2024 @ 11:31am
How To Recover Your Save From Local Backup
Update 1: You can also now open your save and backup folder by going to Help -> About CivIdle -> Open Save Folder / Open Backup Folder. Here's a step by step guide: Step by step guide: https://cividle.com/images/recovery.png

Update 2: Sometimes a corrupted save can cause account rank loss. To recover your account rank, you should first rank up your account to Quaestor, and then recover your progress from a backup

Your progress is synced with Steam Cloud - however, under exceptional situations like power loss or crash, the data might fail to sync. In this case, you can attempt to recover from a local backup.

Your local backup for CivIdle is here
%AppData%\CivIdleLocal\<Your Steam ID>\CivIdle_*
An example looks like this:
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\CivIdleLocal\<Steam ID>\CivIdle_*

* is 1~10 are the 10 backups. You can sort them by date modified to pick the latest one, if that is too new, you can pick the second latest one and so on,

Your Steam Cloud progress is here
%AppData%\CivIdleSaves\<Your Steam ID>\CivIdle
An example looks like this:
C:\Users\<Username>\AppData\Roaming\CivIdleSaves\<Steam ID>\

You should find two files in that folder: CivIdle and steam_autocloud.vdf

You can copy your local backup (CivIdle_X, X is a number 1~10) to Steam Cloud progress folder and rename it to CivIdle. If there's already a CivIdle file in your Steam Cloud progress folder, delete it first.
Last edited by FishPond; 27 Nov, 2025 @ 9:48pm
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WingedLeo 19 Feb, 2024 @ 3:48pm 
Ваш прогресс синхронизируется со Steam Cloud, однако в исключительных ситуациях, таких как отключение питания или сбой, данные могут не синхронизироваться. В этом случае вы можете попытаться восстановиться из локальной резервной копии.

Ваша локальная резервная копия для CivIdle здесь.
%AppData%\CivIdleLocal\<Ваш Стим ID>\CivIdle_*

* — 1–10 — 10 резервных копий. Вы можете отсортировать их по дате изменения, чтобы выбрать самый последний, если он слишком новый, вы можете выбрать второй по времени и так далее.

Ваш прогресс в Steam Cloud здесь.
%AppData%\CivIdleSaves\<Ваш Steam ID>\CivIdle

Вы можете скопировать локальную резервную копию и перезаписать прогресс в Steam Cloud. Не забудьте переименовать файл в CivIdle
Обычно вам не нужно этого делать — это нужно только в том случае, если Steam Cloud каким-то образом не может синхронизировать ваш прогресс.
Last edited by WingedLeo; 22 Apr, 2024 @ 9:36am
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Slimurgical (Stormy) 3 Mar, 2024 @ 12:55am 
The file path on the 2nd entry is incorrect, it's actually %AppData%\Roaming\CivIdleSaves\<Your Steam ID>\CivIdle
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FishPond  [developer] 3 Mar, 2024 @ 7:28am 
Originally posted by StormyStrife:
The file path on the 2nd entry is incorrect, it's actually %AppData%\Roaming\CivIdleSaves\<Your Steam ID>\CivIdle

%AppData% on WIndows maps to X:\Users\<YourUserName>\AppData\Roaming
Last edited by FishPond; 3 Mar, 2024 @ 7:28am
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WZ 4 Mar, 2024 @ 11:24am 
I used to just close the game with the X on the window. Then I realised there was a hard to find "save and quit" option. First time I used it I lost my save...
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FishPond  [developer] 4 Mar, 2024 @ 11:52am 
Originally posted by Wasted Zouave:
I used to just close the game with the X on the window. Then I realised there was a hard to find "save and quit" option. First time I used it I lost my save...

I apologize for this. Did you manage the recover your progress using local backup?
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Vahkn 17 Mar, 2024 @ 1:19am 
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The recovery process didn't work for me. I have 10 saves, 10 minutes apart, but the oldest one is still after everything vanished. I closed the game at the time, but it appears it kept on making backups for 1.5 hours after that, overwriting the real backups.
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Harry Balsac 19 Mar, 2024 @ 8:19am 
How do you do this?? I rename the backupfil, so it has this same name and put it in the other folder, but it will not work, it just create a new save.
The two file is also not .log only the one tha the game load fron, not the those in the backup folder. So i also tried rename it with .log but still the game creates at new file. :-(
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FishPond  [developer] 19 Mar, 2024 @ 1:09pm 
Originally posted by Invalid:
How do you do this?? I rename the backupfil, so it has this same name and put it in the other folder, but it will not work, it just create a new save.
The two file is also not .log only the one tha the game load fron, not the those in the backup folder. So i also tried rename it with .log but still the game creates at new file. :-(

Follow this step by step guide https://i.postimg.cc/gGtmRTTT/Snipaste-2024-03-19-21-50-18.png
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Harry Balsac 19 Mar, 2024 @ 3:08pm 
Amazing! it worked!
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Stormfox 1 Apr, 2024 @ 1:27am 
I just tried to use this method to NOT lose an entire night's progress AGAIN. I had a connection timeout just five minutes ago on the "connecting to steam" part and it skipped the offline production. I tried to re-load the old backup from last night and it did the same thing, just without waiting on a response for as long.

In short, this does not seem to help at all with the most common issue, the server for some reason not checking the offline production.
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talius 27 Apr, 2024 @ 1:27pm 
same issue for me game not loading
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dave 25 Jun, 2024 @ 3:36pm 
How does this work for Linux? I found the appropriate folder but don't see any saved games. And I can't find a way in the game to bring up the "About" window you show in the linked image, nor do I see a way to save a game. Thank you for any help with this.
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WingedLeo 25 Jun, 2024 @ 3:42pm 
Originally posted by dave:
How does this work for Linux? I found the appropriate folder but don't see any saved games. And I can't find a way in the game to bring up the "About" window you show in the linked image, nor do I see a way to save a game. Thank you for any help with this.
Help > about cividle
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dave 25 Jun, 2024 @ 4:10pm 
Originally posted by WingedLeo:
Help > about cividle

Thank you. I simply could not find that, and even with your suggestion, I thought that must apply only to Windows version. I finally found it, thanks to your help.

Is there a way to save a game without quitting?
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WingedLeo 25 Jun, 2024 @ 4:12pm 
Originally posted by dave:
Originally posted by WingedLeo:
Help > about cividle

Thank you. I simply could not find that, and even with your suggestion, I thought that must apply only to Windows version. I finally found it, thanks to your help.

Is there a way to save a game without quitting?
The game is saved in the process automatically
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