Steam cloud sync: can I force it?

06-24-2010, 04:56 AM

Half-Life 2 at work on the Mac (lunch breaks!), PC at home. At home, I don't want to re-play everything every time I start at a new location, but when the cloud starts to sync, I can see it hit about 15% before I get a message that the cloud won't sync.

The sync continues in the background and gets to 99% but never 100%. If I cancel the launch the sync counter disappears and I "lose" all the sync information -- the counter re-starts if I try to launch the game again.

Is there any way I can "force" the sync?

gorpie · 06-24-2010, 05:00 AM

How long have you waited after it reached 99%? It might just take longer the first time? (When they first enabled it, it seemed to take forever for the games to load--now there's only a small delay for the sync.)

I don't know of a way to force it to sync.

EDIT - As a work-around: I don't know if this will work between Mac and PC, but you could trying copying your SAVE files to a flash drive. And if you're wanting achivements, also copy the file half-life 2\hl2\gamestate.txt.

06-24-2010, 04:56 AM	#1
mattshepherd Guest Posts: n/a	Steam cloud sync: can I force it? Half-Life 2 at work on the Mac (lunch breaks!), PC at home. At home, I don't want to re-play everything every time I start at a new location, but when the cloud starts to sync, I can see it hit about 15% before I get a message that the cloud won't sync. The sync continues in the background and gets to 99% but never 100%. If I cancel the launch the sync counter disappears and I "lose" all the sync information -- the counter re-starts if I try to launch the game again. Is there any way I can "force" the sync?

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06-24-2010, 05:00 AM	#2
gorpie Join Date: Sep 2009 Reputation: 1437 Posts: 10,727	How long have you waited after it reached 99%? It might just take longer the first time? (When they first enabled it, it seemed to take forever for the games to load--now there's only a small delay for the sync.) I don't know of a way to force it to sync. EDIT - As a work-around: I don't know if this will work between Mac and PC, but you could trying copying your SAVE files to a flash drive. And if you're wanting achivements, also copy the file half-life 2\hl2\gamestate.txt.