Ps4 download wont save to extended storage drive

Kikep · 2y. It won’t let you transfer it because it’s a half updated state. Go to notifications. And where the Download for the update is, click options, and delete it. It’ll delete the update file. Then transfer the game and download the update. 1. level 2. Just figured it out. You have to format your drive to an EXFat, Exfat is normally for USB's so you can't transfer anything over 4gigs over, (one hour of footage is about gigs) format the drive to EXfat in disk management. 1. level 1. Templar r/PS4 The largest PlayStation 4 community on the internet. Your hub for everything related to PS4 including games, news, reviews, discussion, questions, videos, and screenshots.

Unlike the backup method, the external hard drive used as an extended storage will be totally formatted and encrypted by PS4 system, which means first that you'll lose any previously-stored data, and secondly, you won't be able to have any kind of external interference outside the "reign" of PS4. As a result, the external hard drive. In fact, I can't download any PS4 game that I have ever purchased onto my PS5. When I click on the game in my library/store, it says "play" rather than "download" and then when I click play it says "connect the extended storage device". The problem is, I recently formatted my extended storage device. It's blank. Watching the storage management section in settings whilst it was attempting to d/l showed the free space drop from 11gb to 7gb, then it would restart. The update patch is only mb but the accumulated patches are around 10gb. I cleared some more space (up to 30gb) and it worked (the free storage space dropped to 20gb whilst preparing to d/l).

-External PS4 hard drive failed with games on. -Put a new external hard drive in ps5 -Games that was not on old hard drive download fine -Games that was on old hard drive ask me to delete from old hard drive. Won't let me download.-On PSN store when I go to game says "play game" click that and that's when I get the "please delete game" message. Select [Sound/Devices] [Stop Using Extended Storage] on the quick menu. Select the extended storage device to disconnect in (Settings) [Devices] [USB Storage Devices], and then select [Stop Using This Extended Storage]. It’s a very good idea to troubleshoot this issue by using another USB storage device. This will immensely help detect where the actual problem is.