Save Data Offline

Thanks for looking into that buddy I'll give it a go next time I play offline. I actually did play offline yesterday but tethered the Xbox to my iPhone, which I'm hoping allowed the game to be saved to the cloud, I'll soon find out though. Thanks again.

I think the support agent was wrong.

My guess is it might be a time issue.

As the xbox was originally designed to be online only i'm guessing it may not have an internal battery to keep time.

If that is the case the offline saves on your hard drive would have appeared older than the ones in the cloud causing them to be overwritten.

I haven't tested this myself so don't know if there is an internal battery or not.

But I know the 360 never had one and it would cause problems with some games loading the wrong saves because the newer offline saves appeared older than the ones made online.

Just did some testing.

I disconnected the power for an hour as well as disconnecting the Ethernet cable so it can't connect to the internet.

Then reconnected the power and switched on.

The system time is now 17:01 and the date is 25 May 2013

So all your offline saves would have had this date which is why they were replaced by the saves in the cloud

Next time you want to use the console offline it is essential that you go into the settings app then select system then make sure the time and date is correct. Otherwise when you reconnect the cloud saves will overwrite the offline saves because they will
be dated 25 May 2013

The one way to store your saves Offline is to set your XBOX Console to"Offline" in the network Settings page. With your Console set to "Offline", your saves will be stored on the Built-in HDD or The Drive yout want to have your saves to be put on. There
will be some time when your HDD is full, then you will get a message to free up space .

As soon as you go online again, all your saves will be synced to the cloud.

But be aware even if you will mangae to get all your games saved to an external Drive, you won't be able to access them.

That sounds like the information I was familiar with. And everything I’ve read recently says there’s no limit on cloud storage, except for the above mentioned official support article. And I assume if the official documentation is that there’s a limit
then there must be a limit. Now, I don’t actually want to stop using cloud storage, I’m only doing this to attempt to fix a problem and if there is a limit on cloud storage then that could be part of the problem. The article says I can choose to “keep playing
without saving to the cloud”, which suggests there’s some way to choose to do so. Is that just some sort of prompt I’ll get when it’s full or is there a way to choose to not use cloud storage before it’s full?