This is a known issue due to the steam autoclound sync not currently working on linux.. We are working on getting it supported correctly and cleanly with Valve right now.
Thanks. Had to solve it with Ubuntu One cloud sync ;)
For other interested users, the game save is in .local/share/Doublefine/TheCave.
@urkle When would you expect it to be resolved?
As soon as we figure out how to resolve the "case-sensitivity" issue with the autocloud setup in steam. Apparently valve's implementation doesn't allow mixed-case directory names and filenames.. so we have to rename
~/.local/share/Doublefine/TheCave/
to be
~/.local/share/doublefine/thecave/
And do it cleanly, and without blowing things up. Joy. (or get Valve to fix it on their end)
@urkle It would be better to rename the game save directory of The Cave to lower case. It fits better into the system where almost everything is lower case.
Any updates, @urkle?
@urkle ?
There were some recent updates to steamcloud in the libsteam interface library, afaik each game needs to push an update; these things take time…
@johndrinkwater Do you think you can give a time estimation when The Cave can sync with Steam cloud? Just for curiosity.
Still doesn't work.
BTW: Wow … 10 months and no solution for a simple case sensitivity bug. Now that's what I call customer service.
I would like to push this too.
I have a workaround with symlinking to Ubuntu One and syncing via Ubuntu One to my windows machine but this is not stable and brings other issues. Please fix it.
Don't hope that Steam will change anything, they do not do anything in this case I think.
The cave should have been updated a long while ago to lowercase the save directories to "workaround" Steam cloud's lack of case-sensitivity handling. I'll go check with Doublefine to ensure that correctly was pushed.
Did you find out something?
Nothing extracted yet.
It seems that The Cave game save sync does not seem to work even if ticked in the settings tab.
BTW: Seems that Issue #1929 is a possible duplicate.