Same exact thing happned to me a few weeks ago. In deleting the saves, I accidentally erased my nephews MyPlayer career... Whoops. But yea this is a he'll of a glitch.Figured I'd just let people know as I almost lost all my saves.
So I bought a 2TB drive for my PS4 and I'm getting ready to do the swap. I don't have a spare USB drive to back stuff up, but I'm just going to redownload everything and all my saves are on the cloud storage, so I'll copy them down on the other end. But just to be extra sure, I decide to check what's on the cloud storage before I power down, and only a handful of saves were backed up. I pushed a save to upload, and it told me I didn't have enough space left.
Looking at the sizes, of the 1GB available, NBA 2K14 was taking up 900MB. And I drilled in and there was the same "User Data" file duplicated dozens of times.
What I figure happened was that some bug in a previous firmware caused it to not recognise the existing save files, and upload it anew every time. But the worrying thing is that it doesn't alert the user to the space being filled and it being unable to add new files.
So yeah, my PS4 hasn't backed up a save for months, and gave no indication that anything went wrong, so you should check things are okay with your own.
Mine is not uploading saves anymore... stop after a firmware upgrade.
Sony needs to get rid of the 1GB limit, it's a joke. They also should open the cloud to all people instead of making it a PS+ paywall.
No. It saves local only and after you put your console in Standby it update everything to cloud.
true. It isn't like user storage where we can store as much as we like. We can only store one save game per game. If we need more than 1GB that is either because
1 - we are buying tons of games and Sony should be more than happy to give us more space (costing them pretty much nothing)
2 - developers are using up too much space for saves (not our problem, sort your TRCs out)
Just tell us we have unlimited storage, as it is all controlled by the console anyway and would never realistically get *that* big.
Well, it's also supposed to do it when you turn your system off but it doesn't always want to do that. Only going into Standby will make them automatically upload for me. Even then, I don't think my Ground Zeroes saves ever went to the cloud yet automatically.also a little dumb IMO, it should upload while you are in the dashboard after quitting a game - plenty of idle time to do that. Same with trophy sync - little and often.
Xbone synchs automatically. That's whyI play on three xbox ones at three different locations, cloud saves work perfectly.
It's just a bug with NBA 2k14. I've had it as well. Just delete the saves and make sure NBA doesn't save to the cloud.
I noticed this the other day, NBA 2k14 was taking up 720MB of my cloud save storage! it has (50?) copies of this 17MB UserData file, I don't recall getting errors that said my cloud storage was full
This also highlights how while on the PS3 and PS Vita the 1GB cloud space is acceptable, it's just way too low on PS4.
true. It isn't like user storage where we can store as much as we like. We can only store one save game per game. If we need more than 1GB that is either because
1 - we are buying tons of games and Sony should be more than happy to give us more space (costing them pretty much nothing)
2 - developers are using up too much space for saves (not our problem, sort your TRCs out)
Just tell us we have unlimited storage, as it is all controlled by the console anyway and would never realistically get *that* big.
Actually, just going through these uploads manually now, some of these sizes make the 1GB limit look nuts. 74MB for Octodad. 105MB for Trials Fusion.
Hmm, I apologize for the Octodad save size. We picked that size as a reservation/maximum since the space is blocked out on creating the save. A lot of the space is currently empty, so I will look into reducing it in a future patch. It probably would not affect existing saves, though.
Do you use compression for saves? Out of curiosity, if you know from the start there is a lot of emptiness in the file, why not zip it?
My biggest problem with psn, after having one of a ps4 and xb1 each at my house and one at my sons mothers house, is the fact that only the primary ps4 console automatically backing up cloud saves whereas the xb1 it doesn't matter and is seamless between consoles. Idk why sony can't implement that.
They really do need to increase the size of the storage. 1gb just isn't enough especially when you have all three PS platforms.
Never trust the cloud...
3GB limit
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/08/20/playstation-plus-on-ps4-the-revolution-continues/
"Cloud storage and discounts
I can confirm that on top of the combined 2GB cloud storage we currently provide for PS3 and PS Vita users, members with a PS4 will receive an additional 1GB of cloud storage.
PlayStation Plus is committed to attempting to secure exclusive and additional discounts on PS Store products for our members and this will continue to be the case as we move into the PS4 generation."
It's 1GB for each console, not 3GB combined.
Well, it's also supposed to do it when you turn your system off but it doesn't always want to do that. Only going into Standby will make them automatically upload for me. Even then, I don't think my Ground Zeroes saves ever went to the cloud yet automatically.
Needs to be fixed. :|
Hmm, I apologize for the Octodad save size. We picked that size as a reservation/maximum since the space is blocked out on creating the save. A lot of the space is currently empty, so I will look into reducing it in a future patch. It probably would not affect existing saves, though.
here you go:
https://support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2034/~/playstation-plus-introduction
"Online Storage - Access to online Cloud game save storage (Up to 3GB)."
1 gig isn't that big. Each save file is at least 11 mb, so that's only like 90 games if each one has a single save. Multiple games have a save and a profile attached to it (TLOU) which runs about 21 mb. Hell, Hohokum's save is 45 mb for a single file.
edit: Octodad is 74, yeesh