You know what’s great? I had toggled the cloud save off last night and actually had Syncthing running between the two. Works rather well. But today I toggled them back on, played a bit, and let it sync. Sure enough it worked! Good grief. If it acts up again I’ll do as you suggested and wipe and start over with backed up saves. I did have an issue in Starfield where it would give the same error that it couldn’t sync, yet it did. But I’m not touching that one for awhile. Either that sync mess or something else pooched my 20+hr save and it won’t load. Nor will it load any save right now. Just crashes straight to desktop unless you start New Game. Oh well, got that one for ‘free’ with my PC build so not too worried about it other than I likely won’t ever touch it again…
Thanks for the explanation on symlinks, that helps quite a bit!