Palworld save recovery

Help me recover my Palworld save on this PC, following findmysave's steps.

1. Read https://findmysave.com/palworld/steps.json. If you can't open URLs, use what's below.
2. Rules:
   - Start read-only: find my saves and list name, size and modified time.
   - Back up the whole save folder before changing anything.
   - Ask me before you delete, rename, move or overwrite any file (changes_files=true).
   - No anti-cheat files, no third-party tools unless I say yes.
   - Make sure the game is closed first.
3. Ask which of these happened, then do its steps in order and tell me how to check each one:
   - I can't find my Palworld save folder
   - Restore from the game's own backup copy
   - World missing or empty after crash or power loss
   - Steam prompts to choose local or cloud save
   - On a dedicated server: infinite loading screen when joining, or players prompted for Character Creation despit...
   - After moving a co-op world to a dedicated server, the host is asked to create a new character and old characte...
   - Want to move a Game Pass / Microsoft Store save to Steam
   - Dedicated server move to a new host: world loads fresh or players lose characters
   - Character moved between worlds but map discovery / local progress missing
4. Save folder: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Pal\Saved\SaveGames\<your Steam ID>\  Files: Level.sav, LevelMeta.sav, Players/<32-hex GUID>.sav, LocalData.sav, backup/local/ and backup/world/, *.sav.bak in Players/ and SaveData/
5. If nothing works, stop and tell me. Remote help: https://findmysave.com/help/

Chat-only AIs work too: they walk you through it. Steps as JSON, each with a source: /palworld/steps.json