All your saves are gone! Noooooooo!
Last night I fired up my Xbox and then jumped into Oblivion. When loading my last saved game, it complained that the save was corrupted. WHAT?! Okay….so I look at the next save… it’s okay but it’s about 4hrs older than the corrupt file.
I load that save and find that my controller settings are all whack. I try to set them, no change. I jump out the dashboard…my profile’s not coming up. Crap! My profile became corrupted.
Now, I’ve had this happen before but not what follows.
I go into my system memory, and prepare to delete my profile; being careful just to delete my profile and not all my items (saves, etc…). I wipe the profile and begin to recover my profile from Xbox Live. I must have tried about 5 times and after about 20% into the downloading of my profile it fails. So I hardwire my Internet connection (I have my box wireless) and I finally get my profile downloaded. I jump back into Oblivion…NO SAVES!!! OMG! They’re all gone! All my saves, for all my games! Gone! 50+ hrs worth of playing Oblivion…wiped.
Oh well…not much I can do about it now.
The Solution?
(aside from buying a memory card)
I would like to see Microsoft implement a new feature for my $50/year subscription to Xbox Live; an on-line storage option where I can back-up my game saves and data. This would be tied to my profile and can only be accessed when I’m signed into Xbox Live. But it would save a TON of grief if something like this happened again. It probably wouldn’t take much space either…maybe 1gb? Maybe less. Then they’d have a nice “back-up data” option in the dashboard where you could manually do a back-up or set up a reoccurring, scheduled job – like at shutdown – utilizing the low power download feature (only you’re uploading).
Man that’d save my butt if this ever happened again.
August 2nd, 2007 at 9:46 am
How did you not tear apart your Xbox, or at least your controller, after that? Maybe I just overreact, but if I were in your situation I’d would lose my mind!
If I could give you a copy of my save file, I would. It may not be the character you had or as far as you were, but at least you wouldn’t be at the beginning again.
What exactly is corrupting your profile? I would love your idea though. How awesome would that be?
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:00 am
I was pissed but I realized that having a conniption wouldn’t bring them back. Man…Oblivion, GRAW, GRAW2, RSV, Gears, Dead Rising, all of it’s gone. Grrrr!
I’m not sure what corrupted my profile. It’s happened once before but I had a clean recovery. I’m always really good of shutting down properly exiting my games, etc… Who knows!
August 9th, 2007 at 1:51 pm
I had accidentally deleted my PGR3 profile after spending over 36 hours playing the game. I was so mad at my self. I know how you feel. But I have never had a corrupt profile before.