Has this happened to anyone else?

[ajt07]

Quited a game on my PS today and the XMB didnt come up. Then is restarted. and led me to a screen saying I had to rebuild the database. It was the only option and so I did it. I then lost all my save game data.

Everything else seems to be ok but its a real pain in the backside as I have lost all progress on all games.

Is there a way to back this sort of info up as I spent days and days on some games and now I have to start again on them all!

any help or advice would be most welcome...

[sAiiNt]

Ouch..

Im sure theres a backup ulitility under settings somewhere, maybe that could help

edit: Settings>System Settings>Backup Utility

Dont know if it will work but thats all i can think of

[BiA-SLASHLEY]

yeah the same thing has happened to me a few times, i rang sony who had never heard of this happening before, so they sent me a new ps3 on the basis that there was most likely somekind of hard drive fault.

[TaYlOr_AFC]

yeah this had happened to my 2-3 times now

[cUzZaa]

Yeah this happened to be about a month ago, i got pretty scared.

But everything seemed the same, apart from my messages sent and received gone.

Didn't know saved game bits go though! GRRR

[ANDY_MURPHY]

happened to me once

[Panda]

I was fortunate...

Happened to SnAkEeAteR though lolz. Life really seems to blow for that guy...But his game data was fine apperently.

EDIT: Since you lost your data, just get a new ps3, make sure it doesn't happen again.

SECOND EDIT: Make sure its in warenty.

[flagstealer]

it has happened to me but i never lost saved data...