This is my first time posting on this forum so if I did something wrong I'm sorry.

So yesterday I reinstalled my OS (Windows 7 Ultimate x64) and my witcher 3 saves are gone. Here is what happened. When I first downloaded the game, before the reinstall, I saved the game on my other hard drive (J). The OS is on my C drive. I never touched anything on the J drive concerning the Witcher 3. When I reinstalled the OS, I redownloaded gog galaxy and It made me reinstall the game so I did that in the same place I installed it the first time. Now all of my saves are gone. I still have my time played and achievements on gog galaxy. Did my saves get deleted? Is there a cloud? Can I fix this? I submitted a ticket to support, but they haven't responded yet. Thanks for your help.

Edit: And if I happen to find the saves, how would I go about making the game recognize them?

Edit: In the settings on the client, I changed 'Install game to" to my J drive. I didn't know that it would still save things to my C drive. I would've copied my saves or moved them if I had known that the saves were still going to my C.

Strange,they should be still in j,maybe they weren't saved to j properly.
There is free programs around to try and recover lost files,and I think recover is one of them.
Do a search and see how you go.

Sounds like you installed the game to your J drive. Nowadays, the actual game save files are typically located within your specific user profile folder somewhere. 'My Documents...' is the most popular location these days. The default for that folder is obviously the same drive Windows is installed on.

When you say you saved the game on your J drive, what do you mean exactly? The default savegame location for The Witcher 3 is in your "Documents/The Witcher 3" folder, which is on the same drive as the OS. If you manually copied these files over to your J drive, then all you need to do is move them back and you should have your savegames. If you mean that you installed the game on the J drive, you may be out of luck, because even if the game is stored on J, the savegames are by default located on your OS drive in the Documents folder.

And this is why I have such hate for the use of the user folder by games and programs these days.
OS dies and a common user is screwed and as an advanced user you have to waste time finding all the little files for backup, not to mention all the junk that get left behind after uninstalls and such.

Doesnt matter where the game is installed, savegames are located always in Documents folder. In this case C: then Documents and The Witcher 3. So you learned your lesson the hard way I'm afraid.

I've just done the same thing. Stupid mistake by us. Totally forgot that save files aren't located within the game folder. I've submitted a ticket as well. Have you received any response to yours?

yes we do need the could online backup

By default the game saves all the save data wherever the documents folder is. I have a WD Black2 drive that has a SSD Partition and a HDD partition so windows is on my C:/ which is the SSD and most of my games are on my I:/ which is the HDD.

All the saves for The Witcher 3 saved by default when I first started playing to I:\Users\Rayteku\Documents\The Witcher 3\Gamesaves The Reason mine saved to my I:/ is because I moved my Documents folder and changed the default location for it.

If you go to your C:\Users\YourUser\ folder you can change it for almost every folder in there by right clicking it and goto properties and you should see a location tab in the properties window, then click move and save it somewhere else you may have to reinstall any games before they find the new location not sure on that one.

Hope that helps anyone in the same situation,

Rayteku

After losing my OS SSD a few months back, along with my save games that were not in the cloud, I now have a backup system in place that mirrors all my important documents and saves on the C:\ OS drive, as well as from my E: game development drive to D:

There are many ways to do this, but I use Microsoft Synctoy which is available for free (do a Google search for it), set it up to mirror my files to whatever location I want, and also set up a sync to my Google drive.

This way I have double redundancy, a backup on my mechanical D:, and backups on Google drive. I set up scheduled backups once a week via task scheduler, and manually sync more often when I do development work. The sync is great because you can set up potentially unlimited tasks and backup everything in the click of a button (and it only backs up what changed so resources are not wasted).
With this setup, all you have to do next time is sync and re-install your OS and not worry about files being backup up (assuming you are diligent in adding the appropriate syncs)!

Check into it, I have seen way too many people lose files and progress due to this oversight!

I have had a similar issue. My SSD with the OS on it failed, causing me to lose my save files.

Since GOG does not offer cloud saving, I lost all my progress.

Personally I will stop using GOG until they add this feature. I will finish the games I have on there (maybe) and will make an automatic backup of the folder in which save files are saved. But honestly, in 2015, that should just be part of the client, and I should not have to use 3rd party programs to do what other clients do automatically and simulate a feature that people have come to expect in clients like these.

Sorry for necroing the thread. But for many people TW3 is the first game they play on GOG, and I think it would be good for them to realize that there is no cloud saving, and that it is probably a good idea to make a backup of your saves. Had I known in advance (really, I did not check, and I did not expect my SSD to fail) I would have taken steps to prevent this problem. As it is, I lost all my progress and my will to even play the game.

I might even cut my losses and rebuy the Witcher 3 on Steam. Don't get me wrong, I think there is a lot to like about GoG. But I use cloud saving quite intensively, and it is probably one of my favourite features of any client.

Yes, I often make a backup of these saves on a network disk and sometimes even on Google Drive.

And did you know you can automate backups to Dropbox or another things like that by creating symlinks?

This just happened to me. I thought there was cloud saving, I was wrong. 140+ Hours gone just like that http://i.imgur.com/46yLmLB.gif

312 hours lost... well :(