Recovering 360 Profile What A Farce!

So that you (and others doing it) don't murder the network one would presume. It also downloads all achievement pictures to your console.

I wish it would just let you download the necessary stuff then let you use the profile. It can download the other stuff as it's needed/in the background.
 
So that you (and others doing it) don't murder the network one would presume. It also downloads all achievement pictures to your console.

Even on 56k it wouldn't take that long to download a few 64x64 gamer tiles.

I don't understand exactly what it tries to download and why it takes it nearly an hour in average cases.

T.
 
It takes so long to discourage folk from using it when they don't have to. Microsoft expect you to use a memory card if you want to play on another console. Heard them state on Major Nelsons pod cast that account recovery is not for this purpose.
 
Yes it depends on the profile. My American profile took about 1 minute to recover but my UK one took around 45 minutes. I guess it depends how much activity the account has had - such as downloads etc. Still ridiculous though.

It's to do with How big your account is (can be checked in the memory part of the system blade) and how big it is is based on the achievements you have and games you've played IIRC
 
Did mine lastnight after buying an elite,

Havent had a 360 in a good 8/9 months.

Didnt take very long at all. Back up and playing Conan and pgr4. :D
 
Did mine lastnight after buying an elite,

Havent had a 360 in a good 8/9 months.

Didnt take very long at all. Back up and playing Conan and pgr4. :D

Out of interest, what ISP are you on and how big is your profile? I think mine is around 20mb
 
Hey Wyrdo,

Mine is 35mb and im on BE, full 24mb :D althought the box is connected via wi-fi. But at full strength with nat showing as open.
 
Probably depends what time of day you do it at as well, I'd imagine due to the traffic at prime-time they're likely to limit you more like ISPs do. I remember doing mine at 6am and it was done in couple of minutes, my profile is only a few meg though. But I did try the night before around 8pm and it was taking ages and sometimes failing too so I gave up.
 
So i've been sat here for 20 minutes now waiting for my profile to recover and the progress bar's on about 15%

What the hell is it doing? Surely it cant be that difficult to download a few details about myself!

T.

It does take a long time, las time I did it, it took about an hour :rolleyes:
 
I've recovered mine a few times, only problems i've had is the thing telling me it was down. Never took me long though when it was up to recover
 
It also re-downloads all your friends and all your messages. It also no doubt downloads a lot of stuff we don't know about.
It takes longer than it should, yes.
 
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