Borderlands 2 – Missing Documents folder – (likely) person specific problem

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So i run a Windows 10 machine with a GTX 750 Ti, and a AMD FX-6300 6 core Processor. This machine WAS running with two drives. 1 120GB SSD, and 1 1TB HDD. My Documents, Pictures, and Music Folders were on the 1TB drive, and about a month ago, my 1TB drive failed. I was able to dig up an old 450GB HDD, that used to house Windows 7, on an HP Envy(not sure specific details.) Notebook. This drive has some games on it, one of which being Borderlands. There are some very OLD borderlands saves on this drive, however, borderlands cannot see them.

Now, out of the hope i will be able to recover this 1TB hard drive, i've tried my best to not modify registry values, or library locations(really anything that may make the system not run as it had before), and i think i haven't modified anything.

So now to the question. Where might Borderlands 2(Running off steam), store it's save files, if the default save location cannot be accessed?(In this case, can't be accessed because the drive is gone.)

Best Answer

In the event that borderlands 2 cannot write to a save location such as your documents folder, it will create a folder in its execution directory, for saving files.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Borderlands 2\Binaries\Win32\\My Games\Borderlands 2\WillowGame\SaveData\76561198079075928

Yes the double "\\" after "Win32" is actually meant to be there.

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