How to Transfer Data from One Switch SD Card to Another! | SCG
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ค. 2023
- In today's video I'll be showing you how to transfer data between Nintendo Switch microSD cards! If your current Nintendo Switch SD card is running out of space then you might have be thinking of upgrading to one with more storage. Luckily Nintendo has made it possible for us to perform a data transfer between SD cards so all of our apps and save data will be on our new card. Keep in mind you will need a separate computer for this process to work (Windows is recommended but Mac or Linux will work as well)
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Fantastic video, The best tutorial I’ve seen on TH-cam. Each step was shown in great detail, yet it is simple to understand. Awesome job 😁😎
great guide, thank you for all the process. I loved your desktop wallpaper!
This literally saved my rep with my son as "tech dad." Thanks dude!
i was closing in on my storage space of 128 gb for my current sd card but got myself a 2 terabyte card. this walk through was really helpful because im a literal beginner with anything tech related and always mess things up 😅
there is no publicaly available 2tb cards yet but you got one for switch. Sure sounds belivable.
mind sharing how tf you got a 2tb micro sd card?
@@obiwonkenobi😂
You drop this 🧢
Kioxia released a 2tb but still 🧢
This helped me so much so thanks
Glad you made this guide on how to transfer the SD card data, I plan to get a new memory card and had no idea on how this worked
Nice and straightforward tutorial thanks! Glad Nintendo didn’t make it difficult knowing how they tend to be very protective over game data and sometimes a little over the top for anti-piracy protocols lol. Though I guess that comes in the ways the Switch won’t load games properly if you try to move games from one Switch to another via SD card.
Thank you for the very detailed Tutorial. This has been by far The Best Switch Data Transfer video I've watched. Really hope The Switch 2 can use 1 or 2 TB SD Cards.
This was a great help and very discriptive👍
Thank you so much for making this tutorial!
Thank you so much!! This helped immensely!!
Very helpful!
❤❤❤thank you so glad i found your channel
thank you so much! fantastic video
Very helpful video, thank you!
What about screenshots and videos though? 😬🤔
You are a LIFE SAVER
Sweet! Thank you!
You are a life saver ❤!!!!!
Perfect, thanks!
Works, I have a similar laptop btw, zephyrus rog g15 in black, and I recommended my mum bought a zephyrus rog g15 in white, she loves it.
thanks for vid easy to follow
thank you its very help me
Thanks for the video, exactly what I needed for my son’s Switch. Followed and steps and it went exactly as mentioned… Except the existing games are not “downloading”. Suggestions?
Bro I have the cloud icons on all my games and they are taking their sweet time to download, I did step by step.
I tried it on my switch, and it worked! Thanks, man!!
Not mine
Best video i found, thanks for the extra info about the download icons at the end. Thought i had fucked it up lol.
Thank you (I'm French).
Excellent guide! WIll try this out, but through using the same microSD Card, transfer all the stuff from it to my Mac or Linux PC, insert and register it with my new TotK OLED Switch, then transfer all the data back on there using the exact same 1 TB microSD Card.
Did it work?
@@prodarkzy … Nope. Not under Linux though it felt like it shouldn’t have mattered since I ran ls -la in key folders to see to it that potential hidden files got over, although later I realized I hadn’t formatted the microSD card on the new Switch. I just confirmed that I wanted to use it with the new one, so I probably screwed up anyway. ^^
Didn’t want to wait another three hours in vain for 1 TB of games, but NEXT time!
@@Hammid I looked into it, and it only works if it's going to be put into the same switch. Save data is stored on the Switch's internal storage. Sadly you can't just transfer to a new switch via MicroSD cards
@@prodarkzy It wasn’t the save data I was interested in but all my games and their updates of my 1 TB microSD. Frickin’ takes forever, sadly, to do all over again. ^^
Computer cant seem to acknowledge either sd is inserted. If i moved the data from sd card #1 to system and then transferred to sd #2 would i run much risk in doing so?
hi thanks for this tutorial. followed this and in my case, when i was about to start a game and download it, it does not reload the game but instead re-downloads it. what could i be doing wrong? will it take another space in my sd card? for example if a game is 12gb and was previously installed, will it download another 12gb file? or will it replace the previous 12gb of game file?
Did you put the Nintendo folder on the computer into the new Nintendo folder on the SD card cuz it was highlighted
Putting my comment here along w/ other videos for help. I've been trying to transfer my Information from one SD to another. When I transfer the information over it fully goes through the transfer with out any issues but my Conents folder doesn't have everything inside of it. I do have a 128 trying to upgrade to a 512. I've formated the new SD card but the issue is still persisting
So if I get a new switch do you suggest I don’t transfer memory from one micro sd to another ?
2:14 How much storage space would the card folder take on your computer when you paste it onto your desktop? I'm worried it'll be bigger than the space I have.
Thanks for the video! Looking for how to transfer data from an old sd card to a new sd card to be used on another switch console? We had to send in an old switch lite console for repairs that ended up being replaced with a new one. (and the original was not returned) we have our old sd card with saved game data from non digitally downloaded games but that card that wont work on the new switch. We have a new sd card and can follow the steps to transfer the data but because we are using it with the replacement console, we are afraid of corrupted files or getting the same initial message that "the card is being used with another console or was used with this console before it was formatted...sd card must be deleted for it to be used with this console". Any advice or a video would be so very helpful!! Thanks!!
Do you have to format? I already downloaded games on there before I realized the old games on my other SD card didn’t work now…
I did this put in the SD car and none of my games are redownloading it just gets stuck at checking download.
How about reformat the new sd card on the laptop , instead of formatting it via switch will that have the same result?
I have a question, some games that are on my internal switch memory got transferred into the sd card but I don’t want that
Update: the problem was the low quality of sd card. in my case, when I tried to download the games again, after migration, Switch reported that for each game my data is corrupted. and formatting the microsd card only solved it, and I had to download the games in the regular way.
same here
So how do you COPY all the data, so that I can have all the data on TWO Nintendo Switches? You said in the video that is a different process. I recently had to buy a second Switch, and I thought I could just plop the old SD Card into the new Switch, but the device told me I would have to delete ALL the data to format the SD card for THAT Switch.
I think that its actually a very similar process. What I'm pretty sure you'd do is format the new microSD on the new switch, take the old microSD and throw all the data from that onto a computer, then copy it all onto the new microSD. Then plug the old microSD into the first switch and the new microSD into the second switch. You should have 2 separate switches with the same data when you're done, if my speculation is right.
whenever i plug my old sd card into my pc adapter it says it needs to be reformatted. how do i fix this?
Did you skip, replace, or keep duplicate files?
Just got 1TB Doing this twice, once with a 128GBthat’s about 68GB filled and a 32GB that was full. Wife didn’t transfer anything when she updated memory cards for my son’s switch.
Awesome! I have a 16gb card I got it for $2 but now I need like 100gb one with all the crap I have downloaded on the switch lol
will these help to eliminate the 2005 0003 error? I have 1 TB sandisk with 850 GB FB of free space and I have not been able to download games lately. At the end of the downloads it shows this error. I never format the micro sd card before installing it, although it was new. Any help will be great.
bro i can't transfer games to sd card what would i do? i try to remove the sd card and try to download it to the system memory it actually download but i want to download more games and it needs an sd card but the problem is i can't transfer it to the sd card i try multiple sd card and still didn't work what would i do? i need answer please.
Nintendo shouldve had made it easier ngl but hey, i aint lose my data over the years.....
You can reuse the SD card though. Just format it but back up the data and reput it in the formatted sd card though...i believe you can do so.
I formatted my switch without saving it what did I just delete everything or can I fix it?
What were to happen if i took out my original sd card, and then put in a new one with transferring anything?
I would love to know what to do if I want to move my SD card to a new switch
My son just got a new switch how can he get all his old saved stuff from his old memory card when I put the old memory card in the new switch it wants to format it
My Switch stopped working and I need to transfer the data to a new device. Will it work?
Thanks for the video but I got an interrupted action pop up saying the request could not be performed because of an I/O device eror. The options are to try again, skip or cancel. Can somebody explain and help me with this?
I tried to move the old sd folder into the new folder but I didn't have enough storage so I just opted to try and move my photos and videos over. However they seem to not be there once I reinsert the new SD Card. Does anyone have any suggestions?
The SD card in the switch shows that it has 300 GB left, which is the correct amount
Yet it takes the same amount of time to download all my data that it would on a blank SD card
What do I do?
Doesn't dragging the old "Nintendo" folder onto the SD card just make a Nintendo(2) folder??
Welp im stuck in a problem since my computer doesn't have enough space to transfer the data i just downloaded to the new sd card saying i need another 30 gigabytes, it doesn't make sence?
Does it transfer everything even screenshots and videos
I have done everything correctly and this is my second micro sd card for my switch and I clicked the download button but it started redownloading the game is that supposed to happen or did I do something wrong or could it just be slow wifi making it seem like it's redownloading the game
okay what happens if i didnt do the transfer correctly? i followed all the steps but my switch is saying it cant access the new sd card
On the macbook, the options when transferring the data to the new micro sd card are only Stop Replace and Merge. I’m trying merge right now but I’m not confident it will work
Did it work? Cause all I have are Macs in the house. Does it have any drawbacks?
lol i'm having the same issue... hopefully it works
All my game data is saved under system memory what do I do about that?
Do pictures and videos transfer over as well from the old micro sd card??
I think the screenshots and videos are the only thing that won't be formatted naturally
No
It does not only games
Does pressing download update the game
My SD card had 116G on it when I ejected from
Computer. Put in the Switch and Data management said only 1.5GB was used. It then asks my to redownload every game at 30-40 mins each.
Hi, I did this but I'm locked out of access to my screenshots. All pics and videos from before cannot be viewed on the switch and when trying to take a screenshot it says could not save
Dunno if you got this fixed but it happened to me. The reason was because they're existing on both the console and sd card. Just erase them(the screenshots and videos) all from either the console or sd card(not from both) i erased from the console personally
It didnt work for me. When I attempt to move the copied saya into the new microSD folder I get a prompt saying 'The disk is write-protected, remove the write-protection or use another disk'
When I try to copy the files over to the new sd card, it says it’s write protected… what do I do?
Wouldn't it save time to transfer straight to the sd card rather than to the PC first?
Can you do a Mac version of this please?
The quick “download” part didn’t work for me… I had to redownload some games.
Yeah it didn't work for me either did I do something wrong?
Did it take up space? I went from 128gb to 256gb and I'm I'm half and idk how much space the games will take again
Did exactly your instructions. All my SD card games show 0.0 size yet are taking up 200GB of space. Seems I still have up redownload them all.
yeah don't do this. Even after doing exactly as shown, every game said it found corrupt data. Then when trying to redownload each one it was still corrupt. Only way to have it not be corrupt was to manually delete the game and do a full redownload. I don't know what changed in 9 months, but I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS METHOD. Wasted two days on this. Just put in the new card and start from scratch. Save out your photos first.
edit: even deleting the game and redownloading didn't work. Had to completely initialize the entire card again and start from scratch.
What about archived games? Can you download those directly to the new SD card without having to go through the whole transfer process over and over? I have a lot of games I got off the eShop but not enough storage on my SD card to transfer them all at once and most are archived.
(I feel like that would be the simpler process anyway just archive everything on the old card, switch in the new card and redownload…)
When you archive a game, all that stays on the Switch is the save data.
Most save date is (to my knowledge) kept on the Switch’s internal system memory; but in the event that you have (or even can) transfer it, it should come along with this transfer process.
If it however is saved onto the system memory (as I believe it should be) then you don’t need to transfer it, since it’s just sitting on your Switch.
The obviously downside of doing this repeatedly or for many games, is that you will have to wait for the Switch to download all these games one by one (which is much slower than the data-transfer speeds of modern USB:s).
@@SwedenTheHedgehog cool beans. Maybe I’ll just do that. I don’t mind waiting for games to redownload 🤔
@@Boundwithflame23 Then I think that’s just easier, yeah!
Just make sure to archive everything before you take out the old microSD card! After that, you go to “Data Management” and “Save Data”, and make sure that all of the data is on the System Memory (just in case it’s not a guaranteed thing).
Then you can proceed with turning off the Switch, replacing the microSD with the new microSD. After turning the Switch back on you still have to go through the steps of formatting the new card; and I maintain the recommendation that the video gives: you should definitely keep the old card (without deleting the data) for a few weeks, if something goes badly.
After some time has passed, you can safely use the old cards (and format it first if you want to cleanse it) with a camera or android phone if you’d like!
(WARNING!!: if you have screenshots and videos saved on your Switch, it is likely that (some of, if not all of) that stuff is stored on your microSD card too. If you any to keep it, probably want to copy that to a PC. There is a different method to do this; you can use any USB-C USB cable to connect your Switch to a PC. Then you can go to a section in the Switch’s settings to enter a ‘Transfer Mode’, and in that mode your PC can access the Switch’s album folder and you can just copy them over!)
With iMac should I put “replace” cause it’s not reading my new SD card
Having the same issue, did you find a fix?
Its not working for me I already tried 2 times it keep saying corrupted data or what not whenever I swap in my other SD Card after the transfer
Update... Turns out I brought a fake SD card.. be careful what you buy online. I actually brought a Nintendo Licensed SD card and everything working fine now
What happens if it says that the disk is write protected
There’s a little tab on the side with a 🔒 You can move it up and down to lock/unlock.
Why can’t I just copy my old sd card directly to the larger card??? Why do I need to first copy 400gb to my desktop??? Something which I can’t do btw because I don’t have that much storage available on my desktop
Is a dell laptop ok?
Why it doesn't work for me i did all the things i lost all my pictures and videos
For some reason my SD card says it will take more than 1 day, but I'm only transferring 64gbs onto a 128gb SD card. Does it have to do with my internet or something? Did I do something wrong? Can someone pls help me
It's most likely either your internet or you computer hardware. do you mind sharing what hardware your computer has?
how could we do this for one specific game? "Cough cough splatoon 2" my "old" console is a banned console so i cannot do a manual console save transfer
I feel like I did it wrong I need help
I transferred all my my saved data from SD to SD but all of my games have to be redownloaded from scratch. Any tips?
I'm having the same issue, anybody know what the issue is?
It’s saying my new SD card is full and there’s nothing on it :(((
I have one sd card but the original switch has all the data and I just want it on the new switch
Original SD card got corrupt. Didn't work for me
Only 2 of my games work correctly. The othere only work on old SD card.
I did this exact thing but it couldn’t read the new sd card after I put it back in with the data
Can save data be transferred by removing the SD card from one switch to a new switch ?
I tried to do this and it said there wasn’t enough storage on the computer. Does anyone know how to fix that issue?
Upgrade your computer storage or clear out enough space for the Switch data
This doesn't work, the switch thinks the new sd comes from another switch so it asks to format again before using it.
Didn’t work
i´m gonna replace my 128 GB SD card soon and am using a MacBook Air but either I´m dumb and can't see it LOL or it actually doesn't have a portal for micro SDcard inserting anyone else here who did it on MacBook?
i put that hacking stuff and now my sd card not shown up
I lost my old sd card…