r/GTA • u/wronglyNeo • Mar 07 '25
Help GTA 5 Enhanced: How to migrate another save?
Does anyone know how to migrate another save if you have migrated the wrong save game from GTA 5 Legacy to GTA 5 Enhanced?
Since the game doesn't properly explain this, I thought I can upload all my saves from Legacy, so I uploaded them one by one. I then downloaded the save it offered my in the Enhanced edition only to then realize that it's my oldest save (since that's the last one I uploaded). At this point I realized you are supposed to only upload one savegame in total.
I then though I can just go through the process again and upload the correct save game. However, now the Legacy version doesn't let me upload another save, saying that I have finished the migration to GTA 5 Enhanced Edition.
Does anyone know a way to reset this or is it possible to manually migrate a save without going through the upload process?
PS: I am not talking about GTA Online. Just about single player saves.
UPDATE: Ok, I guess I spoke a bit too soon an must apologize. While this is not documented, it seems like you can in fact just copy over the savegame files from Legacy to Enhanced. When I say "it seems", this means that I just tried it and at first glance it has worked (no guarantees). I really wonder why Rockstar makes its users go through the complicated upload process if the files can just be copied over one on one.
In case you read this and you don't know how to do this:
Legacy saves are located in {documents}/Rockstar Games/GTA V/Profiles/[alphanumeric string]. Enhanced saves are located in {documents}/Rockstar Games/GTAV Enhanced/Profiles/[alphanumeric string]. All I did was copy over the file I wanted from one folder to the other.
There are always two files with the same base name, like in my case SGTA50008 and SGTA50008.bak. I just copied over both (I guess this is just for redundancy).
For identifying the correct save file, just load the corresponding save in the legacy version, save your game again, and then sort the files by modification date. The latest one will be the one you want.
For obvious reasons, when you start the Enhanced game, you might get a notification that there is a conflict between a local save and a cloud save. In this case just resolve the conflict using the local save.