I've got a bunch of these save files I wanna get rid of but despite deleting the entire documents folder and uninstalling it from steam it keeps somehow restoring my save files and putting them in my Documents DoD folder. As far as I'm aware it doesn't have steam cloud... can anyone help?
Check this. Open Steam, right click Dredmor, go to Properties, then I think it's Voice + Cloud (I'm not sure, I have Cloud wholly disabled) and make sure it's unchecked.
I have the Cloud totally turned off, but Dredmor was pulling my savegames out of the Cloud anyway. Including overwriting my highscores and erasing a very promising wizard who was down to DL8 when she vaporized without a trace or even a tombstone. Furious and frustrated? Yes, I was. Anyway, you can apparently turn off Dredmor's use of the Cloud by manually editing config.xml
Run the game with -nukesteamcloud Or better yet, exit steam and play the game outside it by using the exe.
And then you have trapped yourself. If you ever launch the game from the Steam client, you'll lose all your savegames and stuff. It will all be silently rolled back to your last Cloud sync.
I don't think this is the solution, since the file games aren't backed up in the computer, but are downloaded from internet. So those are always new files, therefore you cannot cancel something it isn't on the pc yet. Anyway, doing this AND this together will save your future saves. I use this configuration and it's safe and easy to do.
That file shredder program is garbage. It is commercial and serves a function a hundred freeware programs do every bit as well. Here is one that is freeware and open sourced. It is not a BS trial like that one. I would take freeware and open sourced over closed source and commercial every time. https://eraser.heidi.ie/index.php But back to the actual topic, Vitellozzo is dead on right about how to do things. Steam is a good distribution platform. But for games that do not need protection, it gets in the way a thousand times for every time it helps.
