Just a technical question.
My PS3 hard drive has used up allmost all the 40GB of memory, but i only have 8 games installed on it, about 200 pictures in photo gallery, 1200 music songs & about 10 PS3 trailers.
So were has all the hard drive memory gone.
What are those 8 games? My GT5
uses nearly 4GB, MGS4 uses about 4GB, and Bioshock uses nearly 5GB. Then smaller things like LittleBigPlanet's ~600MB will add up. Also any add-ons to old games. Warhawk only used the HDD for update data until add-ons and now it is nearly 1.5GB. Rock Band is using over 2.5 GB, and SingStar is approaching 1GB.
Go to Game Data Utility (very top of the Game menu) and you will see hwo much space each installed game takes.
Now, downloaded games do not show up in the Game Data Utility. Instead, they only show up by their listing in the Game Menu. To see how large those are hit triangle while looking at them and then choose information from the menu.
And in that case those grow with add-ons as well. Wipeout is natively about 1GB. Pain started as about 200MB and has grown to over 600MB.
It is easy to see how games quickly add up.
And if you have downloaded games like Warhawk, GT5
, Burnout Paradise, or S.O.C.O.M. you have to download all necessary game files that woudl normaly be kept on the disc.
If all those things in plus are not almost the space of the HDD, think about the 3 GBs of Playstation Home maybe, and take in mind that there are not exactly 40 GBs, they're a bit less.
Also, the system uses some of its own space.
Im also suprised at how much space has dissapeared from my 60GB! I also don't get where most of it has gone!
Do not forget to add up the PSN games, themes, pictures, etc. Also, the save files are rarely very large, but every little bit counts.
I just have a few questions..
If you have GT5P does it use the same game install on all your consoles accounts or is it 2GB each account.
I downloaded a few GTTV vids onto my console ages ago (when it was Spec 1).. I can't find them any more and I don't know if they were deleted or they are still somewhere on the HDD, I really want to delete them.
GT5
uses only one install file. Everything else is identified by the save file. Judging by your 2GB figure I am assuming you have the PSN store version, as mine is larger.
GTTV videos will only be seen by the account they were purchased on. For instance, I buy my GTTV stuff on my GTP_FoolKiller account, but cannot see them on my FoolKiller79 account.
Now, if they have expired, but you didn't delete them they will still be there, I believe. At least that is how my Top Gear episodes worked. So, you have to go to the files in GTTV, on the account you bought them on, and delete them from there. I haven't messed with it much lately, so this may not be how it works any more.
Home is 3GB standard on the whole console right?, regardless of how many different places I visit in different regional accounts.
Thanks
Robin.
For a single region account, the 3 GBs is an standard for all users, even if you're only using the Plaza. But if you're using more than one account in order to experience different HOMEs (or regions) I'm not really sure if more than one block of 3 GBs is required. I think no.. but I'm not totally sure.
It has only taken up one block of 3GB for me and I have multiple accounts.
