You can find the answer here. (While the Config tool method also still works, if the save-games are in the right place on your computer.)
It's also a Sticky in the ME2 section.
Furthermore, Andromeda is a completely new game with new protagonists and new storyline and without save game import from the trilogy.
Hey I know this issue is getting older by the year...(Greetings from 2018) but I thought I would input my solution, just in case in works for someone later on, because I found this thread first, but none of these solutions worked for me. So, I thought I would drop a possible solution of other's to try. Here goes...
1. Locate your ME1 save game folder. It should be somewhere around here: C:\Users\<Your User>\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect\Save\
2. Copy your most recent save and the .masseffectprofile
3. Go to you ME2 save game folder. It should be somewhere around here: C:\Users\Matt-i7\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect 2\Save\ ( If the 'Save' folder isn't there already, just create it)
4. Inside this 'Save folder' create another folder called 'ME1'
5. Once inside the 'ME1' folder, paste the files.
6. Make a copy of your save game(Right-click, Copy, and Paste within the same folder)
7. Rename the copy 'Char_01-60-1-2-5-21-11-2009-56-24.MassEffectSave'
8. Done.
This worked for me. Apparently the save game importer in ME2 doesn't recognize the file unless it's formatted like this. Also, since it's only for formatting, it doesn't seem to matter that the date in the save's name is from 2009 xD. Anyways, Good luck Everyone. Hope this helps!
I really appreciate that you trying to help others, but the same answer is in the post directly above your post and in the pined post section of the Mass Effect 2 section.
This is the only solution that worked for me. Been trying to replay the series. The actual file has to be renamed for the import to work. NONE of the other solutions ever had that step. Thanks a lot.
Finally gave up on the Import of ME1 Finals. Apparently the option doesn't exist. Binaries Folder and other mentioned folder are empty. The tool that is mentioned doesn't exist. They may IF you have the disks AND IF you can install them from the Disk, rather than Client. If you are getting the game from the Client, Origin / Steam, forget it, there is NO import so don't waste your time. I played with it for a couple of hours yesterday. In ME1 I sent Kaiden to deal with the bomb, but then get to ME2 and Ashley is the one who was sacrificed. So much for continuity or anything else. Would have loved to see how it played if you went from 1 to 2.
The import works as well on the digital versions of Origin and Steam, even if you have one game one Origin and the other one Steam.
