Data transfer between 2 PS3 = lose all pics/replays!?!

So I just bought a new slim and did a data transfer from my older system. Everything transferred over just fine, or so I thought...

I start GT5, it loads normally, then I get to the GT mode menu...
ALL my replays are gone
ALL my pics are gone
Custom tracks gone
And about 80% of my garage is missing a thumbnail pic and I have to painstakingly redo the thumbnail pic one by one (this is literally going to take hours...)

Now I knew that the replays and pics were saved in the game data folder, but this transferred just fine with no problem, I didn't need to reinstall the game or anything, it even has the correct old timestamp and everything. But I still lost all my replays, pics, and custom tracks.
Do I really need to spend the next 6h or so logging on my old PS3 and manually backing up each photo, replay, etc... to about 200 individual files so I can again manually import them on the new system?
Also, I can't see any import pic option, so are you forced to lose every single pic you took if you change PS3? (with such an advanced picture taking mode in the game?)
Is there a way to recover my pics? Or an easier way to get all my replays back?

It's true. I did the very same thing last week and noticed all this stuff missing. Wierd.

So we are really expected to lose all our pics when the game has so much focus on picture taking? That's crazy...

Redoing all the thumbnail pics individually is going to take me a few hours by itself, then for each and every replay I have (88), I have to click 7 times on the original PS3 to get it on the hard drive, then in the XMB 5 more clicks to save it on the removable storage, then on the new PS3 5 more clicks to put it on the internal HDD, then again in game to import the replay. And this for every single replay? What an oversight...

I still am dumbfounded that they would force us to lose all our pics... WTH Kaz?

I think if the pictures were saved to your old PS3 system (accessible via the XMB), then you should be able to somehow get them back into the game.
This happened to me when I got YLOD on my old 40GB fatty last month.
All game data was backed up so that was OK, but like you said, I lost replays, photos, and a HUGE amount of thumbnails.
Sadly I could not access my old PS3 to recover any photos.
I also noticed that one of my cars somehow de-tuned itself. A Lotus 111R!

Anyway yeah its very annoying:tup:

If you do it from the in-game options menu, you won't lose any of these.

The thing is, I can't see any "import" feature for pics. It's there for replays but not for pics. So yeah all my pics are in my XMB, but I don't see a way to reimport them in game... I just finished my replays and it took me 3 freaking hours to painstakingly manually copy my 88 replays from the original PS3 to the new one. I was getting numb after a while...
Why do we even lose thumbnail pics in the first place? What kind of bug is that?
I'm still very annoyed by all those lost pics... They have got to be aware of this by now, argh

C-ZETA

If you do it from the in-game options menu, you won't lose any of these.

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What do you mean? Mind elaborating on this? What wouldn't you lose and what menu are you talking about specifically?
Also for info, I tried the salvage/repair file option and it didn't recover a thing.

Flyojumper

What do you mean? Mind elaborating on this? What wouldn't you lose and what menu are you talking about specifically?

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From the main menu, Options > Miscellaneous > Utilities > Delete Installed Files. You keep everything that you would normally lose - thumbnails, pictures, replays and courses.

^ he didnt deleted the game data, he transferred the data, read the 1st post.

I deleted the game data a wile ago and i still haven't fixed all the thumbs, they need to make a utility to re-create all thumbnails with one click.

sdf

^ he didnt deleted the game data, he transferred the data, read the 1st post.

I deleted the game data a wile ago and i still haven't fixed all the thumbs, they need to make a utility to re-create all thumbnails with one click.

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They already have it, "select multiple", they just decided to not go the extra inch to allow it for anything more than adding to favorites. 👎

CSLACR

They already have it, "select multiple", they just decided to not go the extra inch to allow it for anything more than adding to favorites. 👎

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It's not hard even if you've have hundreds of cars in the garage. My solution was to do a few selected cars everytime I'm in the garage and in no time at all I've all the car re-thumbnailed. Just don't do it in one sitting as it can get tedious (and therefore frustrating). I know it's not the fastest and easiest way but there are worst things out there than pressing a few buttons.

Yeah, ridiculous you lose that stuff even with data transfer.
I have to redo about 350 cars now and my tracks are only accessible on my old PS3...

UGH, PD. =/

sdf

^ he didnt deleted the game data, he transferred the data, read the 1st post.

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I know, but I'm saying it for next time and for anyone else who tries. Use the Options menu as opposed to Game Data Utility to remove your data and you won't lose anything from it.

C-ZETA

Use the Options menu as opposed to Game Data Utility to remove your data and you won't lose anything from it.

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I never used "Game Data Utility" to remove any of my data. All my data transferred fine, the replays/pics/tracks just became unusable on the new system. How would deleting the main install file before the transfer help the replays/pics to transfer properly? Have you actually used data transfer between 2 PS3 in the past and had that work and lost no pics/replays/tracks?

Flyojumper

The thing is, I can't see any "import" feature for pics. It's there for replays but not for pics.

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Yea, that's because it's not supported. Else you could import to GT5 every pic (crap, porn pics, etc.).

Btw. is there any differene between transfering the PS3 files from one PS3 to another & backup/restoring a full PS3 backup?

If not, then I should get on it and backup all pics & replays separately.

ZeGermanBastorD

Yea, that's because it's not supported. Else you could import to GT5 every pic (crap, porn pics, etc.).

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Not necessarily, they could quite easily implement a "signed" flag that would restrict the import feature to only jpg that have been signed as being exported by GT5.

ZeGermanBastorD

Btw. is there any differene between transfering the PS3 files from one PS3 to another & backup/restoring a full PS3 backup?

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The backup/restore feature only restores your files fully if you use it on the same PS3. If you use it on another PS3, it'll only transfer a very small fraction of your stuff (and game data installs aren't part of what gets transferred). If you use it on the same PS3, then yes it restores it all.

Did it to mine when I got a slim ps3, was able to get them off the old one and onto the new the hard way, but I can't import the pics back into GT5. Guess I really didn't need to, because I usually take them for my ps3 background but it woulda been nice.

Flyojumper

The backup/restore feature only restores your files fully if you use it on the same PS3. If you use it on another PS3, it'll only transfer a very small fraction of your stuff (and game data installs aren't part of what gets transferred). If you use it on the same PS3, then yes it restores it all.

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Well, that sucks! 👎

A backup should be a backup, like on PC, and not a "paticular" backup (if you like to restore it on a other PS3).

Why the heck do Sony make it so complicated? Hope they fix it, at latest for the PS4.

ZeGermanBastorD

Well, that sucks! 👎

A backup should be a backup, like on PC, and not a "paticular" backup (if you like to restore it on a other PS3).

Why the heck do Sony make it so complicated? Hope they fix it, at latest for the PS4.

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I hear you there and I fully agree. If your system breaks and you can't use it for a data transfer, you are forced to lose a bunch of stuff, copy protected saves and all (unless you have PS+ and backed them up on cloud).
Yep, I sure hope Sony makes it much much easier for the customer on PS4.

Remember the days when game data was stored on the game itself, with a not-easily-replaceable battery built in to the cartridge? Once the battery died, that was pretty much it. Lost what you had, and couldn't make new saves either. Or even better, games without a battery backup where you lost everything when you powered down the system?

Gamers these days are so spoiled.

Mike240SX

Remember the days when game data was stored on the game itself, with a not-easily-replaceable battery built in to the cartridge? Once the battery died, that was pretty much it. Lost what you had, and couldn't make new saves either. Or even better, games without a battery backup where you lost everything when you powered down the system?

Gamers these days are so spoiled.

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Remember the days when we had no electricity and you had to walk 5 miles to get drinking water from a well?
What's your point?
That way of thinking can be applied to basically everything in life.
Car broke down and you can't get to work? "You spoiled brat, just walk!"
Sick like a dog for a week? "You whiner, be glad you don't have cancer!"
It's called progress dude, embrace it. A simple working data transfer procedure is not the moon to ask in this day and age, especially when you consider the high failure rate of this gen's hardware.

Mike240SX

Remember the days when game data was stored on the game itself, with a not-easily-replaceable battery built in to the cartridge? Once the battery died, that was pretty much it. Lost what you had, and couldn't make new saves either. Or even better, games without a battery backup where you lost everything when you powered down the system?

Gamers these days are so spoiled.

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Remember how even in those very same days there were other games that used a file system to store saves to floppy disk, hard disk, or tape? And how if you copied those files to another physical unit with the game installed you wouldn't lose a thing?

We're not reinvenenting the wheel here, just making a new model of it with six lugnuts instead of five. It should still be able to hold air in the tires.

Stumbled across this old thread when googl'n to try and find out how to transfer my many replays and photo's to my new PS3. Felt it would be relevant as this thread highlights issues with the transfer and has some useful info on it - which is why I posted here instead of starting a new thread.

With the news that GT6 is going to be a PS3 release, there might be people who, like me, are going to get a new PS3 because of this. My 6 year old 40gb fatty was still going, albiet very slowly, and if the next "GT" was going to be a PS4 release, I would've stuck with it..

So if you're thinking of getting a new PS3 and have photo's and replays you'd like to save/transfer over, you might want to consider this.

Start exporting your favourite video's and photo's from GT5 to your PS3, this means that when you do the data transfer, they will automatically be transferred across to your new PS3. If not, you'll still have to manually export them (from GT5 to PS3), but you'll also have to manually transfer them to your new PS3 too.

If it helps, here's a guide for doing the data transfer for all those that aren't aware/familiar with it:

http://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps3/current/settings/transferutility.html


When the data is transferred, you'll have to re-create many thumbnails of cars in your garage too, so if you have alot of cars i.e. 1000+ and alo of replays and photo's, especially over different IDs, you might want to start "planning" your transfer early as there's a hell of alot of time consumimg tasks/jobs to do to get everything across and up and running, to have your new PS3 mirror exctly what you had it on your previous PS3.

Obviously, if you have very few cars, replays and photo's this won't be so relevant.

I had hundreds of replays, thousands of photo's and 1000+ cars with 4 ID's - so it's taking a long time

One very weird thing that I don't understand - my 40gb fattster transferred 110+gb of data/info as my new 500gb PS3 had 384GB left after the transfer????

Anyone have any idea why?

Hi, thanks for replying to my old thread. The thing with planning out your transfer and manually exporting the pics and replays from the GT5 data install folder of the original PS3 is that you will still not be able to import the pics back into GT5 on the new PS3. I admit I haven't played GT5 in a while but unless they added a new "import pic" option, your pics will be in the XMB on the new PS3 but not accessible in game to use as your avatar, etc...
Regarding space on your new HDD, HDD are advertised as 1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes but operating systems count 1KB=1024 bytes. So a drive advertised as a 500GB only has 465GB of available storage, whether you use it on PC, PS3, etc...
Additionally, the PS3 reserves something like 10-15% of a drive size for temporary files for the OS, so after a fresh format that 465GB drive will have like 400-420GB of space available on the PS3.