Need for speed heat is not saving my career progress

I had this thought at well and tried turning off Origin cloud saving, but that didnt change anything. I literally have save files and my custom wrap (that I spent half an hour editing... cough cough) in the relevant folders in my documents but the game doesn't load them. When I get home tonight I will try turning off cloud saves, and then closing/reopening Origin to see if that does anything.

I don't use any anti virus other than Windows Defender (which has controlled folder access completely OFF, unless I need to turn it ON and add exclusions, that would be dumb). I have Malwarebytes installed but that is the free version and doesn't monitor files. Currently my documents folder library is under Dropbox, so it's not in the default Windows location. However this shouldn't matter since the game created all the save file structure successfully anyway, and all my other games do the same thing.