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6 years ago

Solved

Mass Effect 2 Cannot make new saves or create new imports

I am playing Mass Effect 2 on Steam. I started the game a few weeks ago, imported a character in game, did the opening mission, and autosaved. I returned the other day and used the out of game Config...

Hypeir907
4 years ago
Well, after a year and the release of the legendary edition and dusting off the old save files I found a solution.
The problem was Windows Controlled Folder Access. Even the original ME wasn’t loading up properly, nor were other games that create their saves and settings in the Documents folder.
Instructions to disable are here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/allow-an-app-to-access-controlled-folders

holger1405

Hero+

6 years ago

@YourPunkPrincess

Ok, try to crate a new Windows user Account (Administrator).

Reboot, log on to the new account > Test.

Hypeir907

4 years ago

Well, after a year and the release of the legendary edition and dusting off the old save files I found a solution.

The problem was Windows Controlled Folder Access. Even the original ME wasn’t loading up properly, nor were other games that create their saves and settings in the Documents folder.

Instructions to disable are here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/allow-an-app-to-access-controlled-folders