[SOLVED] There is not enough space on this drive.

[10-David]

I decided to backup my PS3 and plugged in an 8 GB flash drive, and when I choose the drive I want the backup under the drive it says 7600MB and I select the drive wait a 30 seconds and a message shows up saying you need atleast 3401MB free on your drive to back up.
What do i do?

 

[Wes006]

You need a larger flash drive; the PS3 system will expand files as they are being backed up so you actually need more space. Once everything is backed up, it should be around 7600 MB.

 

[10-David]

Yes but the thing is I used the same flash drive a few weeks ago and it worked and I had more stuff on my ps3 than now

 

[Wes006]

Depending on the scope of the backup including any updates that have been applied, the PS3 is reporting that there is not enough space. So, you either have a flash drive with a corrupt file system or there isn't enough space to expand and compact the files. The system files on your PS3 are not static; some of them may have varying levels of compression. Try backing up to a larger flash drive.

 

[10-David]

Okay my bad I was reading it wrong I plugged in a 4GB flash drive to see what happens and it said it needed 6800 MB so this is where I understood on the 8GB one I needed 3401MB more than I have now so which means I need a flash drive with bigger storage. Ok so I just want to put on my flash drive only 3 saves from one game which is under 2 GB how do I do that? And I want to put them back in after formatting my ps3