Game saves only to PS+ users now?

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I hadn't played GT6 in a while, so I fired it up and after a few races I saved and then quit the game to pop my newest save onto the trusty USB stick, but...

...I can't. The sole option on copying a game save is to the PS+ cloud. And, of course, I am not a PS+ member. When was the ability to save to USB removed? Or is it some issue on my side?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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bwob
I hadn't played GT6 in a while, so I fired it up and after a few races I saved and then quit the game to pop my newest save onto the trusty USB stick, but...

...I can't. The sole option on copying a game save is to the PS+ cloud. And, of course, I am not a PS+ member. When was the ability to save to USB removed? Or is it some issue on my side?

Thanks in advance for any help.

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The ability to save to USB has not been removed. When you go to the Save Data Utility, to save your game save to your USB do you see a USB Device like this picture below.
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Scroll down one icon to find the USB option - if that option isn't visible, might have a USB port issue with your console
 
Have you try to format your USB Stick in FAT32 ?
(other mode don't be seen on a ps3)
 
I had this issue before as well, and for me the only option was to reformat my system and start over. I wasn't even able to upload to ps+ which boggled my mind concidering the game still played and saved fine. The only reason I was trying to back it up was because I had over 170000 miles drove with the wheel, and wanted to simply just upgrade the internal hard drive. Good luck and I hope a solution can be found
 
I hope you're not planning on using an USB drive to back your save file up in case you have to get a new PS3, or wipe the one you have now, because that is unlikely to work.
 
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I hope you're not planning on using an USB drive to back your save file up in case you have to get a new PS3, or wipe the one you have now, because that is unlikely to work.
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Oddly it's worked just fine on all four of my consoles.
 
Yes, that sounds odd to me. Or perhaps it was GT5 I tried it with.

The game refused to load the save file when I used an USB drive to move it from my own PS3 to the one my brother's got at our parent's house. The game told me it had been created with a different local user and therefore couldn't be used. It didn't help to make a user by the same name as the account I created it with either.

I just wanted to avoid having to bring my huge PS3 with me to a place that already had a PS3.

Lots of my games lock saves to user accounts, so I stopped counting on USB as a safe backup method in general. Looks like GT6 allows it, though.
 
Same trouble here with trying to back up only the GT6 data to USB. PS+ cloud option only. However, there was another option in the PS3 menu to back up the entire hard drive, or at least all the user data, onto USB. I used that option and it worked when I did a hard drive swap.
 

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