Make Steam cloud save sync case-insensitive and guard against overwriting never-synced cloud saves - #1887
Make Steam cloud save sync case-insensitive and guard against overwriting never-synced cloud saves#1887utkarshdalal wants to merge 11 commits into
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Steam Cloud keeps the original casing of a file key while the game and Wine treat paths without case. When the cloud key (portal2/save/...) differs from the on-disk folder (portal2/SAVE/...), the diff saw two different files: it deleted the local copy and re-downloaded it into a lowercase folder the game never reads. Compare prefix paths and filenames without case in the diff and the conflict check, and resolve the download target against on-disk casing with FileUtils.resolveCaseInsensitive, as Epic and GOG already do.
…write a cloud save At equal change numbers a local file missing from the sync cache was uploaded without question. When the cloud already holds that file with different content, this device never synced it and the upload replaces the cloud save. Route that case through the same conflict resolution as the behind-cloud branch so the user gets the conflict dialog.
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Included review availability: This review used your included allowance. Your plan provides up to 10 included reviews per hour; 8 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSteam Auto Cloud now resolves local save paths without regard to case. It matches cloud paths without regard to case and preserves the manifest’s spelling for matching upload keys. Tests cover case differences in downloads, uploads, and cached paths. ChangesSteam Auto-Cloud sync
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Change: Bug fix Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change fixes save-folder casing for Steam cloud sync. Two earlier concerns remain unverified: cloud entries whose paths differ only by case may overwrite each other, and a mis-cased prefix may let a bad download go undetected. Resolve or explicitly accept both before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Differently cased save keys can become ambiguous, allowing concurrent downloads to overwrite one local file or an upload to replace a never-synced cloud save without a conflict choice. The established risk concerns save-data integrity; privileged or cross-account access was not established. Retained concerns
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@joshuatam can you help me with a review for this? Basically for some games like Portal 2, the saves are uppercase on the PC. Main thing to make sure of is that local or remote saves are not overwritten without the user being prompted. |
I agree for the filename case handling, but what I concern is the logic around For example, when I have internet, before I play the game, it is fresh install and synced saves from steamcloud and the version is 100. When the device go offline, I played the game for a while, and stopped the game during offine, at this point, what is pending local change number? I think for better version checking, we need another field in Consider the following scenarios:
And after all sync operation, local change number reset to cloud change number, and local pending count reset to 0 |
Sending our stored change number makes Steam answer with a delta, which is empty when the cloud is at the same number. The delete diff on download, the never-synced reconcile at equal change numbers and the overwrite guard all assume every cloud file is listed, so the reconcile and the guard never fired. Request from change number zero, as the cache-empty path already did.
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Good catch digging into this. Offline launches bail at SteamService.kt:3114 before touching the DB, so nothing increments while you play offline. The pending count you're describing is effectively the SHA diff between the disk scan and the cached file list, and your three cases already route to upload / conflict / download on that. We also reset the change number and rewrite the cache after each op. Where you're onto something: we pass our stored change number into the file list request, so Steam returns a delta, and at equal change numbers it comes back empty. The reconcile step and the new overwrite guard both assumed a full list, so neither was firing. Fixed in 34ca1d9 by always requesting from 0. |
Yeah that fix make sense, but for the Verify Files, if it is passing -1, meaning cloud saves will always overriding local saves. If user misunderstood the behavior, or they think the local saves are already in cloud, or pressed yes by mistake, that could be the problem of local saves are overwritten by cloud version. How about skipping sync saves on Verifying Files and let user to choose what to do with the conflict when they launch the game afterwards? For fresh install, as there is a missing row in the change number table, we can pass -1 in this situation, otherwise we should never passing -1 in any verify / update path. btw, do you think with the new steam host or bionic steam, saves will be synchronizating hiddenly? If the saves are all under controlled by SteamAutoCloud and no other path, it would be good enough. |
Folders that differ only by case are merged before the local scan; a file is only deleted when it is a proven copy of the other file, the cloud file or the cached file. The diff compares against the exact-case cache entry first, the overwrite guard also covers files whose cache entry has a different casing, and the never-synced reconcile no longer runs when the sync ends in a conflict.
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… key casing Removes the case-duplicate folder merge. Downloads resolve against the save pattern directory so a cloud key with different casing lands in the folder the game uses, and targets are resolved before the parallel downloads start. Uploads and local deletes resolve the on-disk path case-insensitively and reuse the cloud's existing key casing so no second key that differs only by case is created. resolveCaseInsensitive now prefers the exact-case match.
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Drops the save-pattern directory lookup for download targets. Each target is resolved against what is already on disk before the parallel downloads start, so cloud keys that differ only by case land in one folder.
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- Around line 546-549: Before constructing cloudKeysByLowercase, validate
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Drops the leftovers that the mixed-case cloud fix does not need: the FileUtils change, the exact-case-first cache lookup, the case-insensitive post-download hash check and the second path resolution in the single-file download. Adds tests for one-folder downloads from prefixes that differ only by case, cloud key reuse on upload, a cached path that differs only by case, and the never-synced overwrite conflict.
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🟠 Major · Match the cloud prefix without regard to case during download validation. · SteamAutoCloud.kt:356
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save/and the scanned local prefix usesSAVE/, this exact-key lookup finds no local files.hasHashConflictsthen returns false even if a downloaded file has the wrong SHA. The download path can record the cloud change number without detecting the bad file. Match the prefix and filename without regard to case, or validate by resolved absolute path.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Restores master's delta file list request and equal-change-number upload path, removing the never-synced overwrite conflict, which is unrelated to casing. The cloud key map for uploads now comes from a full list requested only when an upload happens.
The post-download check looked up local files by the exact cloud prefix, so a file whose cloud key differs from the save pattern only by case was never verified and a failed download was accepted as success.
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Steam Cloud keeps the casing of each file key and treats keys that differ only by case as separate files. Portal 2 is the reproducer: accounts with saves from 2011 have keys under
portal2/save/..., newer saves are underportal2/SAVE/..., and both exist in the same cloud. On Windows that is one folder. On Android our sync wrote each key into a folder with its exact casing, so the device ended up with bothsave/andSAVE/, the game read only one of them, and the current saves did not show up.What this changes in the Steam cloud sync:
No change for games whose keys have one casing, apart from that one extra request on upload.
Not handled here: devices that already have both folders from an older build are not repaired. Deleting the two save folders and syncing again fixes them (the saves are in the cloud).
Tested on an Odin 3 with Portal 2, modern debug build, against a cloud with real saves under both casings: clean first install (one folder, all hashes match, all saves listed in Load Game), a new in-game save uploading on exit, and an upload of a file whose cloud key is lowercase (key reused, cloud file count unchanged). Unit tests added for one-folder downloads, key reuse on upload, and a cached path that differs only by case.
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