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Madword on 11 June 2017
Ka-pi96 said:

Simple enough question, why is my PS4 lying to me?

It's a problem I've had for awhile now, pretty much every time I want to download something it's like "not enough space" and I have to delete stuff despite being sure that whatever I'm downloading should be able to fit on the remaining space I have. But now I'm trying to download an update, just an update not even a full game, and my PS4 is still saying to delete unnecessary stuff as there isn't enough space. So go over to storage and see... Free Space: 41.58GB WTF Sony?

It maybe (and just guessing here), that files are compressed and you need extra space to uncompress once its downloaded. So it says its 20GB... but it needs space to uncompress it... which means extra space :D



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bananaking21 on 11 June 2017

because its a fucking dick. i hate that when it happens.



celador on 11 June 2017

yeah it's annoying, I've had similar stuff on PCs before so maybe it's something to do with deleting stuff over time? I think i read something about it once



VGPolyglot on 11 June 2017

Hmm, I guess they have some space reserved for updates or other unforeseen errors that could come with filling it up.



Jaxyfoo on 11 June 2017

I don't know why for an update, which should be small. But for games the PS4 will reserve the game size roughly twice, half for the update file to be saved into, and half as installed files. Just the same as PC usually does it.



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COKTOE on 11 June 2017

This "not enough free space" thing happened to me for the first time when I was trying to install Hitman. I had to delete WAY more than should have been necessary to get the game going.



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vivster on 12 June 2017

People should just stop hoarding games they're never going to play again anyway.



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SvennoJ on 12 June 2017

What had a 21 GB update??



ABTR on 12 June 2017
Ka-pi96 said:

Simple enough question, why is my PS4 lying to me?

It's a problem I've had for awhile now, pretty much every time I want to download something it's like "not enough space" and I have to delete stuff despite being sure that whatever I'm downloading should be able to fit on the remaining space I have. But now I'm trying to download an update, just an update not even a full game, and my PS4 is still saying to delete unnecessary stuff as there isn't enough space. So go over to storage and see... Free Space: 41.58GB WTF Sony?

Edit: turns out it was a 21GB update, which is pretty sizable but should surely still fit on to the 41GB of free hard drive space... yet PS4 said no

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Raven on 12 June 2017

I wondered this myself, made things extremely annoying before I upgraded my drive to a 2 TB and needed to manage my storage really well.



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