PS4 uploading woes?

TonyNST · 17 Mar 2015 at 00:59

Hey guy's, I'm trying to back up my save games to the cloud but always comes up with failed upload errors. Is there any word on how to solve this?

Zhokel · 17 Mar 2015 at 09:26

I would hazard a guess that maybe your upload storage is full? Or you're not a ps+ member? (Pretty sure you need to be one?)

Need more information tbh, what's the upload error? And if there isn't one then... I don't know xD

iv-tecman · 17 Mar 2015 at 10:36

PS cloud storage for ps4 is actually pretty pathetic as it's limited to 1gb and even my saves have exceeded this , in fact I'm up to 1.76gb file saves. I mentioned it in the PS plus thread and I was told I'm talking rubbish yet I've seen some save files on ps4 reach up to 300 mb in size.

So I suspect he's exceeded the cloud limits , just like I did. I use a usb stick to back up my save files now..

andshrew · 17 Mar 2015 at 10:59

iv-tecman said:
PS cloud storage for ps4 is actually pretty pathetic as it's limited to 1gb and even my saves have exceeded this , in fact I'm up to 1.76gb file saves. I mentioned it in the PS plus thread and I was told I'm talking rubbish yet I've seen some save files on ps4 reach up to 300 mb in size.

So I suspect he's exceeded the cloud limits , just like I did. I use a usb stick to back up my save files now..

Exactly this, when PS4 saves are created they are allocated a fixed size that the developer choses ie. 10MB. The actual data within this file is usually tiny in comparison, but the save will still take up 10MB of space in your PS+ allowance. Given this most of your PS+ space is being wasted on 'nothing', the current system just doesn’t work anymore because of the way PS4 saves are created.

Annoyingly if you don't manually delete these failed upload messages eventually your Upload section will reach a limit and nothing will upload until you delete some... but it won't explicitly tell you this is what has happened.