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Wreckification
5 years ago
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How to back up saved games

Hi all! 

Long story short, I accidentally linked the wrong origin account to my mass effect legendary edition. I wanted to unlink it, and relink it to my main account like how I intended, but as I quickly found out, unlinking your account will delete all of your saved data. Is there any way I can back up the saved games, and then when I have the right account linked, I can just drag and drop the old saved games into the saved games folder? Thanks in advance to anybody who takes the time to answer, and read this post. 

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  • perji's avatar
    perji
    5 years ago

    cut and paste the Documents\Bioware\Mass Effect Legendary Edition folder to somewhere else, then put it back in when the correct account is logged in.

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  • perji's avatar
    perji
    5 years ago

    cut and paste the Documents\Bioware\Mass Effect Legendary Edition folder to somewhere else, then put it back in when the correct account is logged in.

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    Wreckification
    5 years ago
    @perji You are 100% sure this will work? This has my first character on it and I really don’t want to lose said character. I am not doubting you, just want to be certain. Thank you!
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    perji
    5 years ago

    There's no reason it wouldn't work but you're gonna have it backed up in that other place you copied it to anyway

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    Wreckification
    5 years ago
    @perji okay, thank you for the reassurance. I will try this tomorrow after work, and will pin your reply as a solution if/when it works. Thank you again!

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