How To Delete Dark Souls 3 Save Data

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Salvage Data, Backups, and Recovery

In that location is no Steam Cloud for Night Souls 3. You are responsible for backing up these files.

Many DS2 players lost salve data when upgrading or reinstalling Windows. Let'southward proceed the DS3 community strong by avoiding this.

Location

%appdata%\DarkSoulsIII

This will expand to something similar "C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII".

This is a binder. Support the total contents of the binder. It contains graphics configuration, and relieve files for every Steam business relationship that's used the car.

Questions?

Feel free to inquire questions, or reply others' questions, and I'll add them to the guide as needed.

Can I be banned for this?

Probably non. Bandai Namco recommends save backups, as a precaution against hackers finding ways to corrupt others' saves. They're also needed as a precaution confronting saves corrupting if the game crashes when saving, although you lot're less likely to find them mentioning that 1. :P

I don't know if you'll be banned for pushing the limits. Say, reverting saves to become branching achievements, or to duplicate items. I wouldn't take a chance it.

Tin I copy my save data to another computer?

Aye, but information technology'south beyond the scope of this guide. Yous can learn to transfer files somewhere else.

Tin can I copy saves betwixt different Steam accounts?

No. The save games are specific to your account, and the game refuses to load them on different accounts.

But how do I Practise it? What'due south a fill-in?

How do I backup files?

Make a copy of information technology, and put it in a safe place. "Backup" is simply a fancy word for making a re-create of something, and putting it in a safe identify.

Don't just copy and rename a second DarkSoulsIII folder, inside AppData\Roaming. You're more likely to screw up if yous have backups correct side by side to the originals. It's all-time to put it in Documents, or somewhere else "safe".

I desire backups to happen automatically.

For deject storage, Google Bulldoze and Dropbox are probably easiest. But I oasis't used them enough to feel comfy explaining them. Lamentable...

For local backups, you lot tin look at "Dark Souls iii Save Game Fill-in Tool" by svaalbard, available on nexusmods. I tin can't recommend it considering I've never tried information technology myself. I'm only giving a mention.

How practise I restore files?

Worry about information technology later, if y'all similar. As long as y'all have the backup, you can spiral upward the restore every bit many times as it takes, and keep trying until you get information technology right. But:

If in that location is no DarkSoulsIII binder on the computer, run Nighttime Souls III once, and so that information technology creates one. But in case.
Get out Dark Souls III.
Delete the folder. (Or rename it "DarkSoulsIII - old", or motility it somewhere. Whatsoever feels safe. But become rid of information technology.)
Copy your backup folder into AppData\Roaming
Rename it to DarkSoulsIII, if it wasn't already named that.

Don't ever motion your backup, and utilise it in place of the original. Merely copy it. That way you lot always have a copy, somewhere, in example something goes wrong.

AppData is a hidden folder.

If yous can't see AppData, this is why. But you don't need to see it. But type %appdata% into the Commencement Menu and hit Enter, and Windows volition open AppData\Roaming for you. (Yeah, %appdata% goes to AppData\Roaming, not to AppData itself. But that'southward where we want to go anyhow.)

I lost files and have no backup! What can do?

I've never had to exercise this! Then these instructions are pretty loose. Files frequently tin exist recovered later system restore, reinstalling Windows, or reformatting. Sometimes yep, sometimes no.

Download Recuva, or other "file recovery" software. Information technology'due south best to offset this now. Google Recuva and download an installer. If y'all have a preference for other software, that may be fine; I have no idea. I merely know Recuva is popular.
Do not waste matter time request "But how is it possible to recover a deleted file?" Satisfy your curiosity later. And elsewhere. It's beyond the scope of this guide.
Have Recuva search for "DS30000.sl2" without quotes. (In the residuum of the guide I talk about backing up and restoring the unabridged DarkSoulsIII folder, because information technology requires less clicking, and information technology works. But this one file is really what matters.)
Restore DS30000.sl2 to a safe identify. If there are multiple versions, make copies of them all. You may not get another chance; the difficult bulldoze could reclaim the space at whatever time!
Now attempt to restore, similar with a normal fill-in. Except await inside the DarkSoulsIII binder for the DS30000.sl2 file to delete and overwrite, instead of doing the whole binder.

I have no success stories to share, unfortunately. Only it's better than nothing, and there'due south no reason it shouldn't work. People restore other kinds of files all the fourth dimension.

My data is corrupt!

This is why you should make backups. (Or why Bandai Namco is terrible for not using Steam cloud.) The best way to solve corrupt salve files, is to restore a recent backup.

Merely yous can as well endeavor to fox the game into loading a decadent salve, and sometimes this works!

When the game asks if you want to start over, because your data is decadent, SAY NO. If you said yeah, information technology'southward besides late; y'all deleted the salve. I judge y'all can try using Recuva to restore an older version of the file. I have no idea if this will work.

Assuming it'due south not too late for that:

Exit Nighttime Souls III. If information technology's request you whether to create a new save, SAY NO and and so exit.
Make a backup of your relieve.
Delete the original.
Restart Dark Souls 3.
Create new characters, because nosotros need to take filled save slots. Create i new character for every save slot you lot had in your original save. You can log them out immediately as soon every bit they enter game.
From the chief bill of fare, select Load Game. You should run across a list of save slots you just created.
Alt-Tab, and restore your corrupted save. (Delete your DarkSoulsIII binder, and re-create the fill-in in.)
Tab dorsum into the game, and try logging in a character.
If it works, it should log into your real, restored graphic symbol. Then utilise the Load Game screen on all relieve slots, logging in and out of them all.

If information technology fails, yous tin can attempt starting over from Step iii. Y'all can likewise endeavor restoring just the DS30000.sl2 file, instead of the whole DarkSoulsIII folder.

I know this works for some people, because I've seen it posted several times, and know one person who recovered two characters with it. Simply I don't know the odds of information technology working. I hope it works for yous!