v0.2.5

Fix: Steam Cloud put a cleared slot straight back.

Clearing a slot deleted the saves, and the game showed them again on the next launch. Steam's Auto-Cloud manifest still lists every save*.hg it has uploaded, so a file that is merely missing locally is downloaded again at launch - nothing inside the save folder can stop that. The clear confirmation now says so, and gives the sequence that does work: turn off Keep game saves in the Steam Cloud (game Properties > General), clear the slot, launch and quit the game, turn Cloud back on.

The same comparison was quietly threatening restores, which do sync: the live file was stamped with the backup's original modification time, so Steam judged its own copy the newer one and could overwrite what had just been restored. Under Cloud a live write now carries the write time; without Cloud the save keeps the age it had.

Xbox / Game Pass was unaffected: a cleared record stays in containers.index flagged Deleted, which is the cloud's instruction to remove it.

Windows: download NMSSaveVault-Setup-v0.2.5.zip, extract the whole zip, run install.bat. Your config, vault and saves are untouched by an upgrade.

The Linux and macOS kits are still untested on real hardware.