How to Backup Origin Games Saves

Ensure that your game saves don’t get lost by creating a backup

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest video-game publishers on the market today. It published countless memorable titles such as the FIFA or the Dragon Age series.

It even released its own proprietaryclientthat acts as a library, marketplace, news reading site, and messenger with all things EA-related.

Thisclientis known as Origin, and like all pieces of software, it too has the occasional bug in the system.

If you already use Origin, then you know how all of yourgamescan either be saved locally or in thecloud.

However, sometimes bad Internet connection can lead to anerror in the cloud save.

Additionally, locally savedgamesmean you can keep your place in-game the next time you play, and restore a local save to overwrite acloudsave.

Read on to find out how to backup your Origin games so that you can easily install them later on, without having to wait for them to download.

How can I backup my Origin games and their save files?

Before you can start the process to backup your Origin games, one thing you need to remember is that you have to backup any save files before you uninstall the game itself, or even Origin.

If you do that, the game saves will be gone as well, and you’ll be left with just the cloud save.

1. OpenFile Explorerby pressingWindows+Eon your keyboard.

Navigate to yourDocumentsfolder.

3.Locate theElectronic Artsfolder in the list.

If you want to backup all your Origin games’ saves, right-click on theElectronic Artsfolder and selectCopyfrom the list of options.
On the other hand, if you only want to copy the game saves for one game, open the folder for that specific game and locate itsSavessub-folder.

From there, right-click on theSavesfolder and selectCopyfrom the list.

6.Pastethe game save in whatever location you use to store your backups.

How can I restore Origin games from the backup?

If you want to reinstall Origin or yourgameslater, all you have to do is follow these steps:

The same can be done if trying to continue playing the samegamesaves from a different PC.

Keep in mind that you can only restore your last saves ongamesthat havecloudsaves, so rollbacks will not be possible.

We hope you enjoyed reading our article on how to backup your Origin games. Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

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How to Backup Origin Games Saves

How can I backup my Origin games and their save files?

How can I restore Origin games from the backup?