What happens when you use all of your steam cloud save space?

When I'm playing, I like to quick-save a lot!

Recently I've started playing a game that generates a new save file each time I hit the quick-save key and thus I've accumulated a large amount of save files.

This is no problem for my hard-drive since I have the space to spare but at this rate I'll end up using all of my steam cloud save space.

What happens when you use up all your space?
Do the old saves get deleted from the cloud to make space for the new saves or does Steam simply stop backing up saves to the cloud?

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Best Answer

By the looks of it, it's per game, and you can follow the steps here to see how much you've used up and how much you have left.

Having a read here it seams that when it's full - its full and nothing gets deleted ...

Since your hard can support it (and to be honest save files aren't that large) I'd disable Cloud Save for that game.

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Does Steam Cloud save have a limit?

There isn't a total limit on cloud save data for a Steam account. Rather, each game has its own limit. But it generally isn't something that you need to worry about. Most games will never reach that limit.

Should I disable Steam cloud saves?

A lot of people have been losing progress ranging from hours to DAYS of progress because of a sync error between their cloud save and their save within their computer. Do yourself a favor and disable cloud save so you don't lose progress like we did.

How much space do I have in Steam cloud?

Inside the Steam library, right click on a game and select "properties", then open the "updates" tab and you'll find both the total space available for that game and how much has been used.

Can you delete Steam cloud saves?

Close Steam completely and open your Finder app. Go to Library > Application Support > Steam > SteamApps > Common and open the folder of whichever game you want to delete the save files. Next, open the SAVE folder to reveal the saves of the game.

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