I have the same problem on my iMac with OS X 10.10.4. I haven't been able to restore any of my saved games. As soon as I quit the game and restart it, the saves are gone, although they show up in the saved games folder.
What I tried so far:
- logging off and back my user account
- restarting computer
- disabling cloud support in steam
- creating new profile
- copying old saves to new profile
- renaming Divinity Original Sin folder, creating new profile and saving.
- copying old saves to new profile in new Divinity Original Sin folder
- installed MooseEdit via Wine but MooseEdit didn't show any LSV-files in the playerprofiles folder nor could I find the "Data"-folder on my Mac
- to play the game from another user-account I have to install it from scratch for the other account, because Steam is installing games seperatly on every user-account.
I hope there is a solution for this problem, because in the current state, the game is pretty much useless to me.
Greetings