PS3 ARE YOU KIDDING ME! :-@

Been out all day and watched a Blu ray with my son earlier. My partner went to bed so I thought ok ill jump on my ps3 for an hour. Well it loads up but my theme is missing, I think that's strange ill put it back on, so I go to the theme select menu and there's no themes there? So anyway thought wtf went to the games menu and the folder full of games is missing and I started to panic. Check saves and game data and it's all gone.

Now I turned it on, went and boiled the kettle came back and clicked my user ID 10 seconds later. I looked on Internet and to format you have to select it from the menu and it takes some time? My partner and me have both been out all day and the ps3 hasn't been touched so I'm confused as to how or when it was formatted? It's a phat and I always turn the main power switch off on the back so it's been fully off all day until I turned it on about 20 mins ago. How can it format while being totally turned off? I'm gobsmacked and a little pissed off. It's not like the hundreds of hours I've accumulated while playing can be saved. I blame myself for this but as a ps+ user I have never saved my saves to the cloud and God I'm kicking myself now.

Anyway rant over I'm going to put my ps3 on ebay and stop playing games (probably change my mind in the morning)

 

Turns our my son kept pressing the power button when I jumped in the shower(his way of saying he wants a Blu ray on) and when my partner turned it on she kept pressing X (i told her to do this to get to the menu, she isn't tech savy) and inadvertently formatted my PS3 I just woke up and she said "your PlayStation did something funny yesterday morning, is it ok it said don't turn off". Well she's still knocked out so I'm tea bagging the crap out of her accidents happen and lesson learnt now to auto save all my saves from now on

I hope my coop progress in BF3 is saved server side, lots of updates to do and my PS3 has been on for 8 hours downloading games and DLC, lots to do tonight. Had almost finished Far Cry 3 well 54% but played it for a week lol

Think I'll sell my old games now as the saves are gone and that's all that was keeping me wanting to play them. I'm gutted I have lost my GT5 save had almost finished A-Spec and B-Spec plus my car collection was nearing the 1000 mark

 

Can someone explain the cloud save thing, does it save/upload all the saves at the time you have specified for it to auto update? Just I actually totally turn off my ps3 to stop my son ejecting and powering on and off all day (he really likes buttons)

To be honest the likes of dirt 3 and Bulletstorm aren't worth selling and might keep me entertained when my internet goes down.

Only thing I'm gutted about ate my Far Cry 3 and GT5 saves. Will just have to start from scratch. Did clear the games I had on the hdd I haven't played for ages but thought about deleting. Some games I started and put on the back burner I have forgotten the story lol

 

Yeah I should just sell it i think, might just turn my ps3 on at 7pm everyday and let it do the updates and uploads before I jump on. I'm thinking more about the trophies as I only need to finish the sniper mission on hard and without being seen or compromised.

 

It's only going for £3 might as well keep it and wall spike some freak bobs with you

 

I would forget to auto upload me lol last few days I have turned it on and it's done the upload in a few seconds

 

Yeah my last time was 13/3/2011 and I only have 3 and 2 are games I don't and won't play again

 

Tried to install all my current games but my hdd is supposedly full. I have 8gb of 232gb free. After a data count I'm currently using 65gb so I'm missing 159gb. Looks like another format is needed. Need to find my portable hdd and do a system backup first. My ps3 has pissed me off the past few weeks and I'm starting to think about going back to my eggbox. There seems to be too much hassle with the PS3, making my portable hdd fat32 means I have to format it and it's currently full of needed data. Why can't you backup onto NTFS