Dai Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) So, I just performed the system transfer via PC. Guess what? ALL OF MY GAMES ARE GONE NOW. EVERYTHING I'VE EVER DONE. I have to completely redownload everything. THOUSANDS OF HOURS over THREE YEARS. SEVERAL COMPLETED FILES. ALL. GONE.I have never been so mad in my life.Anyone else completely screwed over?Edit: Bah...sorry...wrong section. Edited February 13, 2015 by Dai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuki Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) That's why I use Steam. It cloud saves my savedata and I can just reinstall games easily whenever. Or you could've made a back-up. System Transfers removing software is common knowledge. If you didn't know, you didn't do your research :V I've had it happen to me as a kid though, which was frustrating, but nothing I couldn't get over. Edited February 13, 2015 by TheYukianesa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 The problem is is that this has never happened to me before, and it SEEMS as if all the data is still on the SD card, but when I transfer over to the micro SD card, it's gone. Which doesn't make sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irony Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 I'm going to perform a wireless transfer for 3DS to new 3DS, which I know takes a long time, but hopefully I will keep all of my data? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 Supposedly it can take up to two hours, but I don't know. Depends on how much data you have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irony Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Supposedly it can take up to two hours, but I don't know. Depends on how much data you have. It's around 1-2GB in data. Hopefully it won't take forever.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irony Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 It's around 1-2GB in data. Hopefully it won't take forever.... But maybe I can use this time to revise....? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuki Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 The problem is is that this has never happened to me before, and it SEEMS as if all the data is still on the SD card, but when I transfer over to the micro SD card, it's gone. Which doesn't make sense. Oh it's about a handheld, I assumed you meant on a PC. Did you format the SD card or something? They're fickle things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 I formatted the sandisk that I transferred everything TO. The data is supposedly still on the SD card, it's just not showing up after transfer to the Micro SD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintessence Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Did you follow nintendo's instructions step by step? They have a video even on the eShop: http://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/227/~/how-to-transfer-content-between-two-nintendo-3ds-family-systems Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Posted February 13, 2015 Author Share Posted February 13, 2015 (edited) I followed that thing to a T. The only successful transfer appeared to be my Mii stuff, and my NNID.Edit: Apparently, just my NNID and my Miis, along with my streetpasses and puzzle pieces, I guess. Edited February 13, 2015 by Dai Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 So, I recently found out there was a file I was supposed to delete that Nintendo did not mention in their guide. It was essentially a duplicate file, which the new card seemingly uses in place of the original file. So, now I have everything transferred over, though I've lost all my recent data. Wheee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eclipse Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 If you're going to necro-bump and double-post, you can at least provide clearer instructions! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dai Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 Er, right. Sorry.The method was by computer. Basically, once it got to the actual Micro SD portion, at least, when you were supposed to transfer everything from the SD to the Micro SD in the computer, there would be, for some reason, two files with numbers within the Nintendo 3DS file. One of them appears empty, the other has numerous files. Nintendo never mentioned this second file, so I thought nothing of it. You're supposed to delete it, or, move the files from the full folder into the other(at least, that's what the method I read mentioned. I simply deleted it.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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