The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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How to backup your Save Files!
By ProCryonicX and 1 collaborators
A simply guide on how you can backup your Witcher 3 Save Files! (With Gifs)
   
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Introduction

This is a simple guide on how to backup your save files in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
This is very useful for a lot of reason for example if you are modding or reinstalling the game.
Step 1:
Make a new folder anywhere on your computer. I usually put it on my desktop so it is easy to find.
You can name it whatever you want as well. I named mine Gamesaves Backup.
Step 2:
Now you need to enter your Witcher 3 gamesave folder. This can be done in two ways.

You can either go to Witcher 3 gamesave folder by typing:
C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME HERE\Documents\The Witcher 3\gamesaves into the address bar of the file explorer. Replace YOUR USERNAME HERE with whatever your Windows user name is of course.


You can also go to Witcher 3 gamesave folder by
clicking on the Documents tab under This PC in the file explorer and then double clicking The Witcher 3 folder and then once you are there double clicking the gamesaves folder.


Regardless of what way you choose to do this you should now be in the gamesaves folder.
Step 3:
Now select (CRTL + A), copy (CRTL + C) and then paste (CRTL + V) the contents of the folder into your folder that you made earlier.
You should now be done. You now have all of your save files backed up so should anything happen to your game you can simply load your files by pasting them into that same gamesaves folder.

Closing Notes
Leave any questions in the comments below and I will try to help you as soon as possible!

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16 Comments
Jgui 18 Aug, 2020 @ 8:07pm 
Thanks<3
⚡RAID | The Best 23 Dec, 2019 @ 8:11am 
:heartgr:
ProCryonicX  [author] 26 Oct, 2018 @ 5:31pm 
Thanks everyone!
Butchẽr of Blavikẽn 24 May, 2018 @ 7:11am 
Great work :SpRad_ThumbsUp:
Rick 23 Apr, 2018 @ 4:42pm 
nice
mintzzz 23 Apr, 2018 @ 3:05am 
NICE
ProCryonicX  [author] 22 Apr, 2018 @ 12:53pm 
@RANDOM_IDIOT (nice name) I have played this game for countless of hours and never has my saves been saved to the steam cloud. Also if you mod your saves can get corrupted, manually saving them insures that you don't have corrupted saves saved.
N 22 Apr, 2018 @ 12:02pm 
Great, but doesn't steam already save them in the cloud?
ProCryonicX  [author] 19 Apr, 2018 @ 11:45pm 
Thanks@clorox frog ! Also thanks for 1k unique visitors everyone! :lifeheart:
Flexexos 16 Apr, 2018 @ 8:55am 
nice guide.