Unable to import a save file from Mass Effect 1 on windows 10

@cy3berodyssey Are the ME1 save files at My Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect\Save? Perhaps after the upgrade the files were moved?

Thanks. 

You need to launch the ME2 configuration utility first (it's in the ME2 folder) and then click the option for "import saves"

There is no in game way to import the save until the game knows the file path for the ME1 saves

@cy3berodyssey

These games have had many updates over the past couple years, one of the big ones they did when they moved away from the social site was using the configuration in the installer folder.  This is generally located here: C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\Mass Effect 2\Binaries

MassEffect2Config.  When you launch this you will do the following:

1. launch config program

2. click on Save Games

3. click copy Mass Effect Saved Games to the right

4. locate the ME save folder which is usually in C:\Users\user\Documents\BioWare\Mass Effect\Save

5. Once you copy that and save it, click the file tab and click save report.

When you launch the game, click on new game and click the import character.  Now sometimes the game wont actually see that save file.  In this case I would remove all folders from the save folder except the actual save you want to import.

I would also recommend disabling the cloud storage at this point as you might overwrite that save or sometimes it just wont see your save.  What I personally would suggest is if this does not work, load the last save file for ME1, save as a new save file and then repeat the steps above.

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