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PSN Cloud storage has a 1000 save file limit, can't save more in Cloud even if you have Cloud Storage space remaining
- Thread starter Trickstah
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Oddly enough I just experienced something similar, only with my GameCube. I never knew there was a maximum amount of "files" you could have. Medal of Honor: Rising Sun actually states how many files are remaining. My 128Mb (2043 Block) card still has 1000 blocks available but cannot save any more data.
Conversely Sony is the only one who let's you backup your saves to a USB drive.
Yeah, sounds like a flag in the backend DB. Simply astonishing display of incompetence if true.
Which isn't as convenient as having cloud saves. Putting that behind a paywall is something that should be brought up more until they realize how scummy it is.
I've always considered that a necessity considering it's the only way to back up your saves if you're not a PS+ subscriber rather than a feature.
The cloud needs an internet conection (and PS+ sub). Ppl that dont have an internet conection, travel to a place without internet, etc, can use a USB drive to backup the save files. Having more options is always a good thing.
How about when they upgraded it from a whopping 1gb to 10gb?
If you read the thread before replying you'd see there's a possibility it's a technical limit. It could possibly be worked around but would require some work to do, if it is indeed what some of us think it may be.
A pretty weak alternative and you have been able to do that on open platforms since their inception.
damn. I feel like I only have like 30-40 games total since 2013 on PS4. .. Imagine having 1000 save files.
So how does that change what I said?
Let me tell you about this little current gen console that lacks such a weak alternative that open platforms have had since their inception.
You need to pay for it on playstation, not on xbox.
And you can travel to a place without internet connection just fine - it will upload again when there is internet available again.
I really wonder who backups the save files to USB, to be honest. Out of all the millions of customers.
But in general, you are right - more options is always a good thing.
It's an extremely naive implementation in that case. Not very surprising though considering history of PSN.
At least their paid cloud saves don't arbitrarily lock out certain widely popular games from using cloud saves because of insane fears of cheating in those games.
If you had any idea how many times that happens, you'd be astounded. It's very easy to say it's a naive implementation in hindsight when it's not really the kind of thing a lot of people plan for due to budget, time or any other restriction.
Seriously, but it's probably a by-product of PSN being built poorly and put together using duct tape lol.
Sure, it's probably some legacy decision that made sense ten years ago with old infrastructure where John booted up more servers as new users signed up. But it's still a naive way of implementing platform level storage service for games if you end up hitting FS directory efficiency limitations. Of course there could be other reasons, limit being a technical one just sounds funky.
I've been having cloud save issues as well, when I check my notifications it's spammed with "cannot upload data" entries. Have not been able to fix it.
I guess I need to see if I'm also hitting this 1000 limit cause I checked the data and am no where near 100GB
I guess I need to see if I'm also hitting this 1000 limit cause I checked the data and am no where near 100GB
Why would anyone have more than 1,000 files? Isn't the cloud just for game save files? I think you'd need to save on a different save file every time you go through a checkpoint to reach that many.
Or maybe it's very unlikely for someone to have 1,000 games?
Or maybe it's very unlikely for someone to have 1,000 games?
Again, it's not save files in game terms, it's 1,000 files period. A game with an autosave, a manual save and a settings/profile file is already three files from one game. There are many games in which it's possible to accrue 10+ unique files saved.
I believe this is on Sony to fix, because their service has one limitation talking about how they promote it and thats every consumer gets 100GB. This is obviously not the case with this extra limit and every day Sony doesn't fix it I am more incline to believe Sony did this on purpose to save on space. And if that's the case they need to be called out on that.
The Xbox *does* save games locally and also a copy in the cloud. You don't have to worry about one overwriting the other, because if they are not the same, (say they get out of sync because of corruption or a console being used offline) it asks you which one you want to use, the cloud or local save.
I've been using Xbox cloud saves since they first had them on the Xbox 360, so about 10 years. In all that time, I've had *one* corrupt local game file that I was able to restore instantly from the good cloud version.
It's simple. It works. I don't have to think about it.
Describes the xbox savegame solution perfectly. It just works, is free and you basically have unlimited space, since every game has their own storage space in the cloud and the more games you have the more space you have. It's amazing really.
Which thank god they do. I love modding sAves on older games. Shit, I was messing around playing as Red XIII in VII:Remake due to being able to. Although it does kind of break the game lol. But still, Sony is the only console with USB save backup and I hope PS5 keeps it.
Yeah. I just reached the limit and went through my cloud storage to clean up:
Days Gone generated 174 autosave files. Death Stranding 50. It's silly that I have to waste my time manually deleting stuff because of Sonys limitations, and it's kinda funny that first party titles are my main cause for reaching the cap.
Yes exactly this, I was just going to create a post about this issue before coming across this thread.
Having played through Death Stranding recently it's generated a huge number of auto saves, and while the game itself tidies up its local saves as you go along (ie. it deletes older local saves automatically once it has created a certain number of save files) the same logic doesn't exist for process which automatically uploads saves to the cloud - that simply uploads whatever saves are new or changed since it last ran.
For a service boasting 100GB of storage for your saves you really shouldn't be required to micromanage them to stop you going over some "hidden" file limit, they really need to address this. In my case I still have 92GB of storage available so I'm not even at the original 10GB limit. At the very least they need to provide some better save management tools that allow you to find games which may have generated a disproportionately large number of save files so you can delete them.
I just hit this error on my ps5 (which separates ps4 and ps5 saves, but apparently still has this limitation on the ps4 side). Never knew about it and googling the error code hit nothing so I'm glad this thread exists. I'm really, really worried their solution is "ps5 games have a new, unknown cap and we don't want you to play old ps4 stuff." How could they not at least double this (let alone just make it per title like other services).
I was managing my saves last night because of the limited space on the ps5. I'll probably just back mist of them up on the thumb drive and delete them. Most of the games I'll probably never play again.
PSN really strange As always.
Its great but the Downside is you have no access to the save files. Not an issue now but as someone who has every retro console imaginable, I feel like that might be an issue years from now.
PSN really strange As always.
Its great but the Downside is you have no access to the save files. Not an issue now but as someone who has every retro console imaginable, I feel like that might be an issue years from now.