How to prevent the game from restoring old saves?

[Fan of Saints]

My God... I fucking can't stand this shit! I turned off Steam Cloud, set save folder to read-only and it STILL restores those old saves? What the fuck? I've been removing them five times already but they still come back after some time, like a goddamn boomerang... Seriously, I even tried to turn on Steam Cloud, launch the game and turn it off afterwards but it still goes on. No matter how many times I remove those fucking saves, they always come back sooner or later.

 

[FusionH2o]

My God... I fucking can't stand this shit! I turned off Steam Cloud, set save folder to read-only and it STILL restores those old saves? What the fuck? I've been removing them five times already but they still come back after some time, like a goddamn boomerang... Seriously, I even tried to turn on Steam Cloud, launch the game and turn it off afterwards but it still goes on. No matter how many times I remove those fucking saves, they always come back sooner or later.

Have you tried deleting them from the C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Local\THQ\Saints Row 2 folder?

 

[Fan of Saints]

Have you tried deleting them from the C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Local\THQ\Saints Row 2 folder?

There's no other save folder as far as I know.

 

[FusionH2o]

There's no other save folder as far as I know.

Could it be Steam's save Cloud causing the issue?

 

[Fan of Saints]

Could it be Steam's save Cloud causing the issue?

I turned it off a long time ago... It's also interesting how those saves don't return instantly, they only come back if I don't play the game for about a week or longer.

 

[F13]

There's no other save folder as far as I know.

Their is but it's hidden. The only way to access it is to manually type in:

C\User\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\THQ\Saints Row 2

 

[Fan of Saints]

Their is but it's hidden. The only way to access it is to manually type in:

C\User\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\THQ\Saints Row 2

...um, you posted the same path as FusionH2o:

C:\Users\*USERNAME*\AppData\Local\THQ\Saints Row 2

 

[F13]

...um, you posted the same path as FusionH2o:

But FusionH2o never said anything about it being a hidden path.

 

[FusionH2o]

Opps. I'm sorry I just woke up like 30 min ago and still trying to get my brain going.

I seen this on the Steam forum:
A simpler way but not as efficient:
1) Start Steam.
2) Disable Steam Cloud.
3) Delete all files in Steam\userdata\SteamID\AppID.
4) Start the game to create fresh (and thus different) new files.
5) Exit the game and Steam.
6) Delete remotecache.vdf in Steam\userdata\SteamID\AppID.
7) Start Steam.
8) Enable Steam Cloud and "Sync conflict" should appear in your game status.
Note that this method may not affect all the files (and you need to modify all of them if you want to delete all of them later).

 

[FusionH2o]

But FusionH2o never said anything about it being a hidden path.

No I didn't sorry about that. Yes by default the "AppData" folder is hidden you'll have to go into your folder options and enable hidden folders.
There could also be a bug in Steam causing the save files to reappear.