Why do cloud saves overwrite local saves on single player games?

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  1. CJ Phillips
    CJ Phillips Guest

    Why do cloud saves overwrite local saves on single player games?


    I recently moved and didn't have wifi. I played a single player game offline for a few hours. I then went online and tried to play. Without prompting me, my Xbox replaced my new saves with my old saves from when I had wifi. Already tried every fix to recover the data. Nothing. Why would I EVER want this? I'm not happy lol

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  2. DrifterX22 Win User

    Which one do you want to use? Locally saved vs. cloud saved game data?

    If you choose the cloud save it is going to pull it down and overwrite the local save.
  3. Spazpol Win User

    Synced the wrong data for forza horizon 3

    Did you already overwrite the cloud save with the local save data that you loaded?
  4. Tezzerrific Win User

    How to undo save sync FH5 on PC

    well, the save is gone, picking the local will resync to the cloud and overwrite your original save, there is no restore function, there is nothing that can be done.
  5. ChiefJoboo Win User

    solitare games

    Thanks but the games are using the cloud
    I believe you can choose to download the save from the cloud or "use local" when you start it up again after you reset the app.

    Otherwise, I can't find any info on how to erase the save on the cloud except overwriting it with a local one after you do the above.
  6. whnjyh Win User

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    hello there ,

    you need to delete the data before you save new data.
    But every time I delete my old local save and open a new game offline, and then choose to use the new local save to overwrite the cloud save when I enter the online game, a lot of files will be automatically downloaded from the cloud, and an error will be
    reported in the game.
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