Hey guys, I recently upgraded my HDD to SSD and I can't seem to restore a save for some reason. I'm on 6.72.
I've had 10 games on the original HDD and my account was offline activated.
I made the following steps before swapping the HDD:
1, back up the system using system, back up and restore (I had to uncheck God of War because my external HDD wasn't big enough to backup everything)
2, back up saves using application saved data management
3, I used backup payload (Al Azif's host)
Then, I swapped the HDD, reinstalled 6.72 fw, restored the the first backup from step 1, restored my profile with the same name & offline activated it, backed up the saves from step 2. At this point, all my game loaded my saves, but my trophies was gone so lastly, I used FTP to restore home & trophies folders from step 3, (however not without error, I did it twice and I always got 20-30 unsuccessful transfers) however after rebooting, all my trophies reappeared.
But here comes the weird part. Remember I couldn't backup God of War? So, I reinstalled it, but it wouldn't load my save. The game tells me my save is corrupted and suggests me to create a new save or restore it from usb. I restored the save (again) but it won't work. Relaunching the game tells me again the save is corrupted, suggests me the same options again.
Any way to "repair" the save?
Edit: For anyone who reads this thread. I was late to realise that I was doing things in the wrong order with the save restoring and also wasn't using the Save Mounter the way it meant to be used, which would've saved me a lot of time and headache. I was lucky at the end of the day, but if anyone gets in a similar situation, feel free to contact me and I'll try to help the best I can!
I've had 10 games on the original HDD and my account was offline activated.
I made the following steps before swapping the HDD:
1, back up the system using system, back up and restore (I had to uncheck God of War because my external HDD wasn't big enough to backup everything)
2, back up saves using application saved data management
3, I used backup payload (Al Azif's host)
Then, I swapped the HDD, reinstalled 6.72 fw, restored the the first backup from step 1, restored my profile with the same name & offline activated it, backed up the saves from step 2. At this point, all my game loaded my saves, but my trophies was gone so lastly, I used FTP to restore home & trophies folders from step 3, (however not without error, I did it twice and I always got 20-30 unsuccessful transfers) however after rebooting, all my trophies reappeared.
But here comes the weird part. Remember I couldn't backup God of War? So, I reinstalled it, but it wouldn't load my save. The game tells me my save is corrupted and suggests me to create a new save or restore it from usb. I restored the save (again) but it won't work. Relaunching the game tells me again the save is corrupted, suggests me the same options again.
Any way to "repair" the save?
Edit: For anyone who reads this thread. I was late to realise that I was doing things in the wrong order with the save restoring and also wasn't using the Save Mounter the way it meant to be used, which would've saved me a lot of time and headache. I was lucky at the end of the day, but if anyone gets in a similar situation, feel free to contact me and I'll try to help the best I can!
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