Hi, i have a problem ( which I found it is actaully quite common), with my 32 gb Sandisk sd card I just bought brand new off Ebay. First the early problems arose when I transfered data from the old 4 gb sd card that came with the 3ds xl to the new one, it was a 3 gb file transfer took atleast 1 hour for it to transfer always. I put the new 32 gb sd card into my 3ds xl and I was quick to realize that my Mii Plaza puzzle games which i bought in a bundle where gone. Just the Puzzle game and the sword/hero game left. My Mii Plaza personal data was still there since that stuff is saved onto the 3ds xl system memory and not the sd card but when I tried countless thins to redownload my lost dlc Mii Plaza games, I gave up. My other actual Digtally downloaded games like Fire Emblem: Awakening were still there, so I knew it was a problem with the Mii Plaza only. WHEN I TRIED TO REDOWNLOAD those Mii Plaza DLC games, a error comes up and states that the downloaded data is corrupted and that I had to delete the corrupted downloaded data throough Data Management, I did, same result.
Thats the first part of my story which is over becuase I got really sick of that problem and formated my sd card (I backed up the save data of Fire Emblem: Awakening before doing so to system memory) with the Sdformatter program. I formated it to Fat32. I thought the proper and recommended format method would with all the stupid corruption problems and stuff with my stupid 32 gb sd card, but when i put the sd card back into the 3ds xl, I had to redownload all my digital titles, when I went to Data Management and tried to restore my Fire Emblem: Awakening data, it tried to reset up this data-save-backup management information thingy and it did. I waited for it to finish and when I click the Restore button on Data Management, THERE WAS NO DATA TO BE FOUND. OH AND AS FOR THE STUPID MII PLAZA DLC GAMES THAT I BOUGHT, THEY STILL COULDN'T REDOWNLOAD.
ANYWAYS BACK TO THE MORE IMPORTANT THING, MY SAVE DATA FOR FIRE EMBLEM: AWAKENING WAS NOT TO BE FOUND. And doesn't backup saves save only to the 3ds xl system memory and not the sd card? I'm so angry right now, more angry becuase I think I've just spent 17 dollars on a faulty Sandisk 32 gb sd card, THEN AGAIN, many people had my Mii Plaza DLC problem too, so all of them had faulty sd cards? Or did we all do something wrong.
I really didn't want to go to a forums, becuase it was kind of a hassle for me, after stupidly calling Nintendo for help, I should if remembered how useless they were to fixing problems like this.
I just want you guys to know I need help right now, if there's any knowlegde on how to get my save file back, please share your information, if not then i'll just turn this thread into a dissussion thread for people to state their similar problems, becuase this is my last chance to fix this issue and I've wasted enough time calling Nintendo Support for help.
Once again sorry for typing this essay for you to read but if you can survive through it, please don't hesitate to share info.