I bought a new micro SD for my Switch 2 yesterday morning and transferred a bunch of games over to it that afternoon. Last night, I saw that the transfer failed. Not only did the transfer fail though, but it corrupted my software data on both my Switch and the SD card. I tried reformatting the SD card from my PC hoping that would work, it didn't.
I couldn't even check storage anymore. It would either not launch at all, or it would launch and immediately crash back into the menu. The one time it did work it just showed the corrupted files without icons and "????" In place of their names.
Last ditch effort, I decided to factory reset my switch. After all, we've got a Nintendo plan so my games' saves should be backed up to the cloud.
Well, most my stuff is in tact, and it repaired the microsd card. I'm pretty devastated though, because my Animal Crossing Island wasn't backed up and apparently neither was a single one of my Pokémon games.
I just lost 240hrs of Animal Crossing, and 100s of more hours spread across my Pokémon games. Probably a bit more than a 1000 hours of total gameplay and progress lost...
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