Steam – Copying non-steam FTL save to Steam

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I have been playing FTL for a while, and managed to unlock all the ships. Recently, however, I managed to get a copy on steam. I would like to just copy my save from the linux directory (i.e. ~/.local/share/FasterThanLight/prof.save) to my steam account, to keep everything in sync.

However, when I go to my Steam folder, no such file exists to replace.

How can I copy my existing save into Steam?

Best Answer

First, make sure you installed FTL on your computer (the one you want to move the save into).

In the "~/.local/share/FasterThanLight" directory, you should see 2 files:

  • continue.save
  • prof.save

Copy both of these files, and paste them into the "~/.local/share/FasterThanLight" on your new computer. If there are no files there, than that probably means that you simply haven't unlocked anything on that copy of FTL; simply replace any files there, or add them in if there are currently none.

If you are not moving the saves between computers, then don't do anything. Steam uses the same directory for saves as the non-Steam version, so you can simply click "Play" in Steam, and keep your saves.

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