Origin Cloud Sync deleted saved game data in Dragon Age Inquisition.

[smiling_daily]

I lost over 90 hours of game play! The save files are missing and trying to restore from the cloud doesnt work!

[Funeralflames]

Nothing works.It seems as if my data is completely gone. I don't want anything to do with this game or even Origin.*Edit* I see a save game from last night, but it won't sync.It's the local option

[Sputsnik]

Lost 73 hours of gametime and the restore thing did not work... fml

[justsurfing81]

I just lost over 60 h of playing and I want Origin to fix this. I just want my saves back  mileysad: I don't think I will start all over again after all this way and, certainly, I will not buy another Origin game from now on. Very disappointed and frustrated.

[justsurfing81]

I've managed to get the saves back. It was very simple and solved the problem for me.

1. Check if you have some save files in My documents\ Bioware\Dragon Age Inquisition\Save

 If you have them get to step 2

2. Enter the game and hit LOAD--- it will say something with corupt file ..... bla bla bla

3. Choose SWITCH CHARACTERS and then  your character----- after that the saves related to this character will come up

[LorteBrugernavne]

Thank you. I Had lost over 60 hours and nothing else seemed to work. You just saved my day.

[thejinjynator]

Got on to play this morning, it asked me if I wanted to sync with the cloud because it did not sync last night when I finished playing.  I chose to go with the local data and it suggested I make sure that my cloud stoarge was turned on so I did and it also said to restore my save so I did that as well.  I have now lost over 131 hours on my only character and I am very frustrated about this.  I had an internet connection last night so I do not know why I was unable to sync then but now it has restored me to Dec 28 but with no game to load.  I was playing and should have saves at that time but no luck, any more ideas?  I've everything on this forum and nothing has helped yet.

[thejinjynator]

Talked to EA and they said that my data is gone forever and they wish they had a better answer for me but they are not able to retrieve it for me.  No more cloud saves for me.

[BlackBettey]

This is terrible.. Just lost about 15 hours as well on Xbox. The biggest problem with syncing is I have no idea when it's actually uploading. I played several hours today and not once while I was on it did it upload the saves.

[Omuth]

Hey guys, just had this issue.  My brother came to visit me and signed in on his own Origin account to pay Dragon Age.  Little did he realise (nor I for that matter) that you could overwrite a different Origin account's local save game.  Not very smart EA.

Anyway, we were able to resolve the issue by using Window's built in backup system (which runs as default).

1. Go to: C:\Users\Your Username Here\Documents\BioWare\Dragon Age Inquisition
2. Make a copy of the folder "Save", just incase you need to keep that data
3. Right click on the folder "Save"
4. Select "Restore Previous Versions"

With any luck your old saves will be there.  Obviously this won't work for anything else but Windows, and definitely won't work if you've disabled that feature. But that just saved me 60 hours of gameplay.

Good luck to you all.

If there are any moderators listening, it is ridiculous to have multiple Origin accounts using the same Windows user account folder for saves.  What is the point of having cloud saves if it means you can overwrite someone else's local data.  Think about it for a second.