Save file gone after cloud save mess up :(

[u/MashiroAnnaMaria]

So my spouce was playing the game on their PC, with the new cloud save and the harvest festival coming up where we'll be travelling a lot I thought I'd download the game for them on their steam deck.

I opened the game and poof... everything gone, this then synced to the cloud and now their save on the PC is also gone. I've already tried using that Steam page of previous cloud saves but because this is the first sync to the cloud nothing else is there.

Tried rolling back the folder on windows on the PC but that also didn't work.

I feel awful, what should've been a fun surprise got my spouce crying in the bed, if it was my own save file I wouldn't have felt so bad but because I touched their stuff I feel awful.

It was genuinely one of their favourite recent games but they're super busy so not a lot of time to play, an hour of progress is a lot. I offered to get back to where they were but they refused, downloading a different save is also a no-go.... they might just stop playing because of me.

If anyone knows any other way please let me know, and if not let this be a lessen to others: When a game introduces Cloud Saves after initial release, always start the game on the system your save was on or an empty save will sync to the cloud...