Why can't I sync my Minecraft world to the cloud?

termin29 · Dec 28, 2022

For the past month or so, every time I closed my world (on an Xbox Series S), I was greeted with the message 'We can't save more data for this game or app', despite having more than 250gb of internal storage free.

After I've closed that pop-up, I get another one saying that my world failed to sync. I found this to be true when I loaded Minecraft on my old Xbox 1 and found the newest synced world over a month old.

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iRush4Tacos

DO NOT erase your local game saves storage like Microsoft support might says!!! There are sync problems and I was told to do that and now all my world's are stuck in the cloud and I can't retrieve them till they fix it, if they ever do. To solve the problem they told me I had to erase my local game saves, and then sync back from the cloud. What I would do is find a way to transfer your world to Minecraft realms and save it to another device that way. I wish I would have done that. Your worlds are not safe on the Xbox or on its cloud services. They basically can't do a damn thing, neither Minecraft support or Microsoft support.

ross._

The problem is it wouldnt sync, then when it finally did after playing my minecraft world, the cloud synced to the earlier stage

PalmettoBling

Were you in the Minecraft Preview as well as system preview? It might be that the newer version of Minecraft worlds aren't recognized by the older version? If not, I thought they synced via the cloud, and would check that you're connected and cloud storage
synced properly ( https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/games-apps/troubleshooting/cloud-storage-sync-error-messages ).

jugohugomugo987

Were you in the Minecraft Preview as well as system preview? It might be that the newer version of Minecraft worlds aren't recognized by the older version? If not, I thought they synced via the cloud, and would check that you're connected and
cloud storage synced properly ( https://beta.support.xbox.com/help/games-apps/troubleshooting/cloud-storage-sync-error-messages ).

I was not in the preview

ArminatorX

In order to hinder or prevent savegame hacking, you can't access your savegame cloud storage directly.

It's a completely separate cloud storage and has nothing to do with your OneDrive.

Therefore you can't download your worlds, but if you go to a different console and sign in with your Microsoft Account there, and start Minecraft, your world will be synced from the cloud and you can continue playing in your existing world.

You can't however transfer it to the PC or other Minecraft editions manually. You can however migrate your world to a (paid) realm server, and then use that realm on different devices that support realms.

Why can't I sync my Minecraft world to the cloud?