Nintendo Switch: Not Enough Space when trying to download Marketplace content or realm world

Moved to the correct project.

Which world in particular are you having issues with please?

@Mega_Spud it seems to happen when trying to download any new world; a one of the ones I remember buying, but not being able to download, is the Roman Empire World; there are a few others that I can't recall the name of right now, but can post when I get back home to check. As a test, I deleted some of our saved worlds (which took up more space than a world we were trying to download), but still got the same error; even though I just freed up more space than the world was supposed to require and I already have over 20gb of free space on an SD card and the system itself 

Could you please include information about how much data Minecraft itself is taking up on the device? You should be able to see this by going to System>Data Management>Software>Minecraft (A screenshot might be useful).

I'm not able to take a screen shot at the moment, but I discovered something that fixed the issue. I deleted most, if not all, of the "imported" worlds that came from the old version of Minecraft for the Switch; after deleting these (although the actual size footprint of the game on the Switch didn't change all that much) I was able to download all of the skin packs/worlds that I bought and wasn't able to download. I also haven't seen this size error since then either. 

It would be useful to know the amount of space taken up by Minecraft, and by each user save if possible please. Here are the steps: (Don't actually delete the data, just make a note of the figures shown!)

• System Settings>Data Management>Minecraft (How many GB shown here?)

• System Settings>Data Management> Save Data/Screenshots and Videos>Delete Save Data>Minecraft (How many GB shown here?)

• System Settings>Data Management> Save Data/Screenshots and Videos>Delete Save Data>Minecraft>User Name(s) (How many MB/GB shown here? Please don't include user names here)

Here's what my Switch shows.

System 15.2, microSD 16.9 (of 32GB)

2.5 GB

15.2GB, 16.9GB

2.0GB

Still unable to download Egyptian Mashup on my Switch in 1.10.0

I have the same issue with the Steven Universe Mashup Pack on Nintendo Switch. 

Nearly 10 months, and there is still no resolution to this bug. I have texture packs and worlds I have PAID FOR and yet I am unable to use them because of this. 

I am also experiencing this problem with the PureBDcraft texture pack.

i have same problems

Your device is almost out of space that Minecraft can use to save worlds and settings on this device. Why not delete some old stuff you dont need so that you can keep saving new stuff.

You are almost out of data storage space! Minecraft has restricted access to this feature until you clear up additional storage space.

System memory space available 21.8 GB
MicroSD Card space available 47.9 GB

Minecraft was redownloaded on the sd card but it makes no difference.

Minecraft is the only game with this problem

Hi,

I have a similar issue when I try to download PureBDcraft texture pack update.

At time I write this, my Switch has 11,8 Gb free system memory and 16,2 Gb free sd card memory. When I try to download the update I get the message "Not Enough Space - 278MB". If I try again - same message appears but this time there is 556MB required. The value increases every time I try to download the texture pack.

The same thing happened after I deleted the old version of PureBDcraft. So I'm not able to use this texture pack on Switch anymore.

Here are some more infos:

At the moment Minecraft consumes 1GB SDCard space  and 2.6Gb SaveData in system memory on my Switch.

The SaveData is split into 3 user:

U1: 2,0 GB

U2: 577 MB

U3: 32,3 MB

I hope these information will help to solve this issue.

As a workaround for the issue you are experiencing, you can delete any old worlds, and you can also remove any cached packs by going to Settings>Storage, removing packs that aren't in use. Furthermore, as each profile on Minecraft has a limited amount of space, you can also create a new player profile (with the same account details) which will give you a new space allocation.

I have deleted all worlds, purchased an external SD card, as well as confirmed that the switch itself still has plenty of storage.  See the message I get in image0.png above.

Super frustrating.  Considering requesting a refund, however my kids would really rather just play minecraft, so please fix!!

As of today, version 1.14.3 I can not download my world from my realm due to this "almost out of data" issue. I really want to reset the nether for the nether update and the only way to do so on bedrock is to download the world and upload after altering the file.

Unable to download realm. Getting the same message as others about restricted feature due to almost being out of storage space. I have over 20GB available. Clearing space worked when me world was under 350MB, but now that it is over, I cannot download it, and I've deleted all my other worlds, packs, and cache.

I found the error while trying to download a newly purchased world. This is something I rarely do, and the first time I try it, ISSUES. I also subscribed to Realms Plus at the same time. Very frustrating. I have over 12Gb's available on the main system and 83GB's on the added SD card. Space is not an issue. To be clear, this is a world by a third-party (Blockception). Those are the ones that I rarely ever buy. I'm thinking a refund is the better option until you get this fixed. Why pay for something that doesn't work? I'll pay you when you fix it. 

This issue is coming up on its second year mark. Is there really no fix yet?

Recently ran into this error when my friend was trying to change a texture pack on his Realms Plus subscription (which he is PAYING for). I'm utterly confused as to why this issue hasn't been resolved. This is a completely game breaking bug that's existed for 2 whole years and Mojang hasn't even looked at it? Quite ridiculous. I understand game development is incredibly busy work, but to neglect something this game breaking, and by the way, revenue killing, is foolish and lazy.

It's because the QA team goes after the bugs that have the most votes here on the tracker. Not many Devs watch the subreddits and the ones that do attempt to get people to come here and vote. The problem is even though we see multiple people every single day posting about this issue on Reddit very few actually come here to vote for it. Therefore it becomes our job to remind the other lazy players to come here because here is where things get done

I found a reddit thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/99ppex/data_storage_issue_on_nintendo_switch/) which says Nintendo imposes a 2GB restriction per game per profile. Has the Minecraft team tried to apply for a waiver from Nintendo to increase or remove this restriction? 

My daughter got the same message on the Switch, but there was ample space on the system/SD card to accommodate the 100mb storage Minecraft wanted to download a texture pack. Deleting some worlds/textures/packs from the system using the data management tools in game fixed the issue, but this will happen again since she plays a lot and has a lot of resource packs. 

Still in this boat. No wonder I’m playing on PS4 again.

I have a slightly different symptom but appears to be same root cause. We will get the message about space during game play (usually 5 - 20 minutes of playing). Message is:

"Your device is almost out of space that Minecraft can use to save worlds and settings on this device. Why not delete some old stuff you don't need so that you can keep saving new stuff"

Minecraft: 805 MB

Delete Save Data Minecraft: 2.2 GB

Delete Save Data Minecraft Users: 577 MB, 1.6 GB, 32.3 MB

I just tried deleting the user save data with 577 MB to see if it's this 2 GB limit. I'll report changes if it would help.

It happens to me too. I don't think it's because save data is restricted to 2GB because my Dragon Quest Builders 2 savedata has a lenght of 3.7GB.

I'm not sure if this is the same on the Switch, but on the 3DS games are not allowed to use more Save Data after an update, so it may be impossible for Mojang to fix this one because of Nintendo. They would have to have reserved more save space back when the game first released.

My Minecraft takes only 1.2GB, yet it still displays the message when I want to update/download something from Marketplace and when trying to create Mario Mash-up Pack, but not when creating new normal world and playing old worlds (except for existing Mario Mash-up Pack worlds, it just crashes or takes me back to menu with worlds). Weird.

Problem occured late last night (30/07/2020. I deleted an unused backup. Realm downloaded,got to the import stage, game crashed, now will not download and throws up the error. Game file is under 800mb. Will not download on switch or mobile phone.

Ewan Maclnnis:

No, in Nintendo Switch games can extend their savedatas. If you run Minecraft the first time, savedata is like 500MB but it can reach 2GB maximum. And thats where the problem is. I don't know if you need Nintendo permissions or it is just in Minecraft code but Mojang needs to increase savedata lenght.

Maks:

Savedata can only be saved in Memory. You can't use SDCards to store they. ¿Do you have free space in system memory?

2020-08-13: Nintendo Switch, MineCraft (Bedrock) version. Paid for Mutant Survival by Syclone Studios, message "Not enough space - 140 mb". Deleted unused game software through Data Management>Manage Software. Deleted unused worlds in Minecraft. Current system memory free space: 13.4 GB. Current Minecraft software space used: 1.2 GB. 

Had this issue just now trying to download a texture pack I'd just purchased for my daughter.  Cleared a 2.3MB world and then the pack downloaded.  She has one other world that's 6MB in size.  This is beyond a joke.

In all seriousness this game is a mess on the Switch.  Horrendous load times, constant requests to log into Microsoft accounts.  Terrible performance, glitches across the board.  How Microsoft/Mojang can let a product ship in this state is beyond me.  This is one biggest console platforms in the world - get a grip.

I've wasted so much time working around basic issues in this game while my kids get upset and angry.  They've already formed their perception of Microsoft based on this, and let me tell you it's not good.

Get your house in order and fix this product.  ASAP. 

Had my ticket closed and moved here.  We purchased Jurassic World pack and experienced this.  Seems this ticket is pretty old without resolution so I am concerned why I was moved here when we just shelled out $10 for something that will not work. 

I just wanted to chime in again to confirm this is still an active issue and has reached a point to where the game is pretty much unplayable. It is no longer possible to create a new world. My son has since quit using his Switch to play Minecraft and instead uses his Xbox, which doesn't experience the same issue. I have tried to delete some of the downloads to free up space, which allows the game to be played for a short time, but the storage space quickly fills back up and causes the issue to arise again. Even getting into the storage settings to delete items has become difficult due to the lag encountered when doing so. Please, someone help!

I agree with all of the above. It's been an issue for quite some time and there doesn't seem to be much care to fix it. My daughter has long moved away from playing the new, "nicer" version of Minecraft, to the old, stable version. It's frustrating considering the amount of money we have spent in resource packs and whatnot. 

Noticed that the space shown increases when trying to download again. in this case it keeps increase indefinately until exiting the pack. going back into the pack and retrying starts the cycle again. hope this helps solve this as its very frustrating. images JW nes(1-4) [size] uploaded. 

Note this is on NSwitch v1.16.21 Marketplace (now 1.16.40)

Many thanks

After note:. tried again and didn't work but have now managed to download. 

Method that WORKED: I downloaded another world first (Maths Robot) then tried JW and it worked! 

Hope this helps out solving the issue

This is still a problem.  I found that my child had a ton of worlds - 78 to be exact.  I think in total somewhere around 2 GB of content.  I told her to delete a bunch of the worlds to free up space despite her having 17 GB free on her device and an empty 120 GB SD card.  As soon as she did that, she was able to download the content. 

To do yourself, log into the game under your child's account, and go into Settings -> Storage.  Select the data to delete.  

If there is a per account or per game data storage cap that Mojang or Nintendo has imposed that this is related to, then Mojang needs to update the error message to give people some actual idea on how to fix this issue themselves.  The error message is dubious and overall insufficient in helping the user, and even the support staff, diagnose the problem without breaking into the source code and searching for it.  That's bad error handling.

Try it with external data, it won't do that 🙂

Ok, there's a lot of wrong ideas in here:

1. Nintendo don't let you use SD Cards for savedata so please stop from saying that you have a lot of space in your SD.
2. Nintendo haven't implemented yet an external data metod so games can't save any data outside the save data file.
3. Nintendo have restricted all save data sizes to 2GB (with exceptions in some games like Dragon Quest Builders 2) because they have cloud service to store a copy of your saves and Minecraft is compatible with it.

Edit:
Hey, one moment. What's the maximum size of shared data? That file that is used by games like 1-2 Switch or Animal Crossing New Horizons.

I'm not english, sorry if I make any mistake in my comment.

This just happened to me, said I could not save my world due to low space.. 23gb on system and 41.1gb on SD card free...

I think I've got the same problem trying to download the new Star Wars.  I've got 19.8GB system memory and 101GB microSD memory available.  

On the switch, I've tried archiving all of the games and re-downloading on to the SD card where possible, I've tried hard restarting the console, and I've deleted a few games we don't use.  

On Minecraft, I've deleted most of our games, and have tried downloading other packs (they've worked).  If I try to download the Star Wars pack again after it fails, I can see the space required increase by about 170MB every time (same problem that John McGrath noticed).

One other data point that I can't track down with Nintendo anywhere online, is that if I try to check for corrupted data using the switch system settings (Data Management -> Manage Software -> [[GAME]] -> Check for Corrupt Data), it doesn't have any problem doing so for any other game, but when I try to do it for Minecraft I get a system error 2001-0106.

This happened for me too.

Same

Is anyone from support monitoring this thread?

Problably not.

Oh, and Minecraft only has a 1.1 GB storage space on Switch.

Same issue on my son's Switch. Application memory usage is reported around 860MB, Over 100GB free space available between Switch and microSD. Unable to download Star Wars expansion. Previously encountered this issue several months ago and was able to resolve it by deleting about 50 of his ~100 worlds and removing all the expansions he no longer used. He now has ~150 worlds - tried deleting an amount whose total memory usage was greater than the expansion pack, but that didn't work. Please prioritize a fix for this. This issue is years old. People as spending money for services that aren't being provided .

I completely agree - my daughter rarely plays Minecraft on the Switch anymore due to these bugs - the older version actually seems to. be a good bit more stable than the Bedrock version too. I opened this ticket two years ago and still I see people comment about the same issue every so often and get reminded of all the money we've essentially wasted on new worlds/resources that can't even be played due to fatal software bugs. As a software engineer, that makes me sad. 

Same problem here, I have 17+ Gb of System Memory and 486 Gb of SD Memory yet I cannot load the Star Wars for Minecraft. This is not a good problem when you can't load add-ons that you have purchased in the Marketplace.

We are having the same issue. Just purchased the new Star Wars pack and now can not download it. Get an error message stating "not enough room" even though we have plenty of room on system and well as SDcard

This may solve some problems, but not all.

Go to Settings.

Then to Storage.

There will be options to go to Worlds, TExture Packs, and DLC off of the Marketplace.

To delete, click on what you want to delete and press the trash can icon that pops up.

You can still redownload MArketplace content.

Exact same problem as the other commenters. The Switch has more than enough storage space available, but Minecraft just throws this error and makes the game unplayable. This bug, a critical blocker for a segment of paying customers, was reported over two years ago and remains unresolved. Remarkable and sad.

Same issue.  My 5 year old spent his allowance money on a new world that he can’t play.  If you aren’t going to fix the bug for over 2 years now can you at least reimburse us?

I have the same issue as well. The total size used by Minecraft is about 2GB and it says I am out of space even though there is more space available on my Switch console.

Mojang problably doesn't pay attention to this issue as it is older. If we could create a new issue about this same problem. maybe it will draw attention to this one.

I created a new issue about this problem back in July, but it was marked as "Resolved" and as a Duplicate (MCPE-89700).

My son was having this problem with the star wars pack. After some clicking around, I decided to enable the option to save/backup worlds and skins to my Microsoft account. Once I set this up, was able to successfully download the new star wars pack. Worth a try if you're having problems. 

I am having the same issue with the Star Wars pack. I purchased it today and it is saying that I do not have enough space for the 171MB download but I currently have enough space on the physical switch as well as the SD card. I saw in some previous comments that you asked for some info. He is what is showing on the switch.

Minecraft is using

system shows – sd card 1.2 GB

Screenshots - 343 MB that is for all images and videos

delete save data shows 4.0 GB

System Memory Free Space - 14.8 GB
MicroSD Card Free Space 23.8 GB

@eric - did you happen to try the possible fix I mentioned?

My son is having the same problem with the Star Wars Mashup. Your solution sounds great but I can’t figure out where to back up worlds to Microsoft account. Any help there would be great. Thx!

@dan me too! It seems like most of us are having the star wars mashup as a problem

Hi

We've been having the same issue here for a long time now. I think I have managed to work around it, in a way. As I understand it, I buy 'maps' from the marketplace. That purchase downloads a world template to the device, and then I create a world(s) from that template. Both the world(s) and the template use storage.

I think I've have found that, in many cases, I can delete templates from the device (freeing up the space used by the template file), without affecting worlds that have already been created based on that template. If I want to create a new world based on a previously purchased map, I need to go back to the marketplace and download it again so that I have a copy of the template locally (and, ironically, probably need to delete another template to make room for it!).

There is definitely an issue if the template contains an addon required for the world (which is the case for Star Wars Mashup). In that circumstance, although the world file still exists locally, it won't start unless the template file also exists. There may be other issues too - I haven't tested this extensively.

To delete the template file(s), go into Settings from the Minecraft home screen, click Storage, then World Templates. Selecting a template enables a delete button. There is an option to delete multiple templates.

I'd love to hear if this makes sense to people, if my logic is sound, and if it helps anyone, and also if there are any other circumstances where doing this may cause other issues. If you decide to test this for yourself, please exercise caution and don't sue me if you break or lose something!

I fully appreciate this is not a fix in any way (and that one is desperately required for this), and requires the user to manage the pool of templates on the device, which is a massive pain, but if I'm right about this, it might just help a few of you out.

Cheers

Stu

That sounds logical to me @Stuart Hawkins - I hope Mojang fixes this issue one day, but two years after I opened this ticket and people are still flooding in with the same issue

Hi. I am a French user of Minecraft and I bought several mashup, textures,etc add-ons. I got the same "not enough space left" issue when updating one of the add-on. Playing with an old-version of the add-on is not possible, and Minecraft complains about updating.

The problem occured for at least one year. It's now version 1.16.201 running, and both toy's story mashup ans nightmare's chistmas mash ups stucks on this update/not enough space issue.

I just try to remove the world templates of two addons that were needing an ipdate : toy's story mashup ans nightmate's christmas mashup. And I succeeded to download the toys story update ! 

Thank you Stuart ! I least my son can play the addons I bought to him. But definitely, this is NOT a Fix of the bug. I'll have to remove/update each time my son will want to play an addon, and that is NOT acceptable from a sercice I paid !

I've been getting this issue for a while now 😞  Unfortunately I don't download much content.  So the template fix won't work for me.  I have just 3 worlds, although one is 1.2GB, the one I'm currently playing is just 132MB.  I too have 128GB memory card but I have 86.5GB free on that and 21.1GB free of System Memory free and I'm STILL getting this "almost out of data storage space".  It feels more like it's running out of RAM...

I have this problem too. I tried to download Odyssey Builder and got "Not Enough Space - 400MB" Is there really not any logical way to fix this?

For those running into this issue, check out this comment above!

There's a 2 GB per-profile-per-game limitation imposed by Nintendo on the device itself. In Minecraft, from the main menu, go to Settings, then scroll to Storage.

You can remove old worlds, texture packs, resource kits, etc. that aren't used (but you can redownload your purchased stuff again in the marketplace).

Hope this helps others, as it helped me!

To clarify, this is a Nintendo Switch imposed limitation. Minecraft/Mojang can't outright fix it.

Appreciate the comment Nathan.  That's the thing, we have a few hundred MB of worlds on his devices and the game, well under the 2GB limit.  I get the limitations of the platform/device, just trying to figure out why it still won't let us download anything when we're under the limit.

I play on Nintendo switch now and unfortunately I am not buying packs any longer because quite often I am unable to update the ones I have due to this bug.  I have gbs of available space and for some reason I cannot update a 104mb download.  I just wanted to give my info and show support for fixing this.

I have the same issue, is anyone aware on how to create space by getting rid of some older words. I cleared out what I thought was 200MB to add a 184MB game, but it will still not allow me to add the game. I'm thinking about getting a refund.

I had the problem, even if I deleted all my world/texture pack /skins, and nothing remained in the Minecraft resource manager, the download was not starting due to "not enough space" error.

I went to the Nintendo switch settings, and discovered this:

Nintendo Switch settings -> Data Management -> Save data management (at bottom, sorry my screenshot are from a French console 😉)

then you see this:

There is 2.0GB of save data for this game... click on Minecraft and you get:

So on this screenshot, you can see that my save data for Minecraft for my account is 577Mo, it was 2GB when I get the error while I removed everything from Minecraft, and even after un-installing/re-installing Minecraft, it was still 2GB because I have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription I guess (so it restores my saved data from the Nintendo cloud, instantly reaching the 2GB limit).
 
So to wipe the save data, you press "erase all save data for 'your profile name'" and you get a freaking warning:

Deleting the save data is the trick, but be careful, and Nintendo is warning you, if you didn't transfer all your Minecraft purchases to the Microsoft account, you could lose them.

And you will lose everything in Minecraft.

Once done, my Minecraft profile was clean, and I was able to download the Minecraft store items I wish.

Later on, I discovered the Nintendo cloud saving of save data was failing, because on Nintendo servers, my save data was still 2Gb, while 0 on my console, so I explicitly asked to forget the save data in the Nintendo cloud through the console menu, in order to enable again the automatic copy from my console to the Nintendo servers.

@@unknown try using the ingame resource manager in the settings menu via the main menu to delete unwanted packs, presets and worlds to not run into this issue again. The max filesize for savegames on the switch are 2GB but you can simply and precisely delte unwanted content this way and never run into issues with cloud sync and backups.

Hope that helps.

That's the tricky side of this: I did this, I removed Vanilla BDcraft texture pack, and all other items I purchased, the Storage was completely empty, but I still get the No space left on device error, until I discovered that removing everything from this Minecraft Storage menu has anyway left 2GB of save data in my Nintendo switch profile! 😉 that's why I describe in my previous post the steps I've made to fix this situation...

How I found it:

I had 254Mb of data in Minecraft, No space left on device.

I removed them through Minecraft storage manager, 0 items in storage => No space left on device.
I un installed the game, then installed it again. No space left on device.

I think that archiving the game (remove Minecraft program, but leaving saved data) has left the 2GB of data.
And deleting the game + save data solved the problem, but the Nintendo cloud sync has restored the 2GB saved data in the mean time, so I also get No space left on device.

The only solution for my, was to remove the 2GB save data explicitely from the console data management menu, and flush them also on nintendo cloud explicitely to solve the problem for real.

(?)So for me, when the Nintendo switch reports that Minecraft has 2GB of data for user Mickou, Minecraft Storage manager should list them, because there is 2GB of data, and the proof is that trying to download anything else result in No space left on device error.

@@unknown I never ran into this issue like you just described so you I guess you should open that in a new report ticket i think.
I always had the 2GB are full issue and deleted it that way and everything was fine afterwards.

@mickou06, I want to try this as I’m running into the out of storage bug with one of the packs my daughter just purchased, but am concerned that deleting her save file is going to delete all of her worlds.  Any idea if that will happen?

Before doing this extreme workaround, could you please share a screenshot of:

• Minecraft resource manager using her profile 

• Nintendo switch saved data management view for her profile and for the game Minecraft.

If the size reported by these 2 are different, this will confirm you’re facing the same problem than me!

I too am having this issue... I am on Minecraft Bedrock: 1.17.11

System Update: 12.1.0

The Texture packs i paid for but cant use at all are the following:

Beyond the Lands, Candy Texture Pack, Cartoon Texture Pack, City Texture Pack, Fantasy Texture Pack, Minecraft Classic Texture Pack, Minecraft Texture Update, Natural Texture Pack, Pattern Texture Pack, Plastic Texture Pack, PureBDcraft, Rainbow Craft, Simply Cubed, Steampunk Texture Pack...

The Worlds i purchased or were free:

10 years of minecraft, Abstraction: Minecon Earth, Advanced Farming, Bloom, Catastrophic, Crab Cove Carnival, Farm Life, Grid Runner, Hollydale, Inspiration Island, Jig's Guide: Redstone Basics, Lucky Blocks, Lucky Present Island, Mc But: Mobs Drop Random Loot, Marine Biologist, Minecon Live Rush, Minecraft: Emerald Tycoon, Purple Parrot Party, Random Drops, Ready Sled Go!, Sam & Danni - break the world, Santa's Gift Hut, Simburbia, Snowstorm Simulator, Spring-a-majig, Spring-a-majig Spawn, The legendary Phoenix, The Lost Civilization, The Traveling Trader, Washington DC...

The Mash-up packs i paid for but cant use at all are the following

Adventure Time, Chinese Mythology, City Mash-Up, Egyptian Mythology, Fallout Mash-up, Festive Mash-up, Greek Mythology, Halloween Mash-up, Halo Mash-up, Mass Effect Mash-up, Skyrim Mash-up, The Nightmare Before Cristmas Mash-up, 

• System Settings>Data Management>Minecraft (How many GB shown here?)  1.1 gb**

• System Settings>Data Management> Save Data/Screenshots and Videos>Delete Save Data>Minecraft (How many GB shown here?) No settings option for this step...

• System Settings>Data Management> Save Data/Screenshots and Videos>Delete Save Data>Minecraft>User Name(s) (How many MB/GB shown here? Please don't include user names here) No setting option for this step...

This is getting ridiculous! I was able to play the new "Dragonfire 2: Nations" on my Xbox just fine this morning, and now that I want to play it on my switch, it says I can't install it, even when it had installed before and my system immediately crashed afterwards. I've deleted nearly all of my stuff and it still isn't letting me download it even though I have more then enough space. I think this happens when you don't have enough space to begin with and you buy a pack and try to download it. It doesn't recognize that there IS space and just assumes that there isn't. This has happened with another world I had bought and STILL can't use called "Wilderness Survivor." I've paid money for these things that I can't even play and I'm very upset with Mojang.

I have completed all the Troubleshooting steps here i am no longer getting the error message not enough space the Dragonfire 2: Nations map now crahses during install on my kids switch. she spent her money on this map that is not able to work.... how do i get the minecoins refunded back to her account?

Unfortunately, no. Mojang doesn't refund anything. I'm sorry your daughter has to go through this with us

We have tried all the work arounds. No success. We:

• deleted worlds

• stopped cloud backup because it wasn't working and still said we were at the 2GB limit for the account

• we deleted the save data for the account on a previous switch and stopped its cloud backup for the user

• we corrected download and backup issues with other accounts on both switches

• we restarted multiple times after almost every step

The switch is still saying the account has 2GB of data for the account stored on the console, but the account is only showing about 500MB of data inside of Minecraft settings. I can't figure out how to get that number down without deleting everything (the game and probably all account data, but at least all account data for the problem account) and reinstalling. We would rather not lose the worlds that my kids have put a lot of time into already.

+1 for the not enough space issue (348MB) and +1 for none of the workarounds working around. GBs of free space on both Switch and SD.

In the same boat with Dragonfire 2. Going to see if it could be transferred to Java Edition on PC to avoid losing my $10

got rid of the storage error by deleting a texture pack but now software crashes when it gets to importing the world. Please update if you find a way to refund Dragonfire 2: Nations 

(errors on switch)

I'm trying to get in contact with spectral studios (Dragonfire 2 creator) to see if they can help fix the issue. It's what the Minecraft support team said to do and if that doesn't work, I'll have to get back to them on the issue. They said that since they didn't create the content, they can't really do anything about it, but they're trying to help so we'll see how it goes. If they find a solution, I will definitely post it here so it can help others.

I just bought DragonFire 2 Nation last night and I deleted a good portion of my world. Once I has enough storage I started downloading it. During downloading Minecraft crashed on me. Now everytime I try to re-download it keep saying not enough storage and I'm really annoyed about it.

Dragonfire 2 nations pack often fails to download on nintendo switch. Complains of not enough space. The storage has many gigabytes of empty space. I have deleted all Minecraft save data, this appears to let the pack download but now it fails at the unpacking stage at around 3% . This same behaviour is seen on 2 different switches. I did manage to get it installed once on one of the switches, my kids played on it for a short while then when I transferred their old save data back to that switch it wiped the pack and the world that had been created, tried redownloading and installing the pack again just to be stuck with the same errors. Even when wiping all their Minecraft storage again, the install fails on the download a few times then always fails on the unpacking stage.

I have gotten the install to work on Android tablet and pc. But then when I try to upload it to realms so my kids can access it from their switches it just freezes on the initializing upload modal, the progress bar never appears. This same behaviour is seen on tablet and pc. So I've bought the pack twice for each of my kids and I subscribed to realms plus in order to try and work around the bugs and still no success. The amount of time and money wasted on this is incredible.

I just bought the Egyptian mythology pack, and it won’t download. I have more than half the storage still left on my PlayStation, and have only just started playing Minecraft a couple of weeks ago, the storage is a little tiny bleep of a thing, I have a LOT left to use. Behind annoyed at this, I want it working or my money back. 
I’ve noticed I can still purchase from the store, so they are willing to take money but not provide the product. Ridiculous for such an old problem to still exist. 

This is for the Switch. You mentioned Playstation. Wrong area to post. 

@unknown The issue you are dealing with is MCPE-102459

I have been having this happen since Feb of 2022. It’s getting to the point that I can’t play with my husband anymore, because nothing will update. It’s frustrating. 

I got this error on my Switch the first time a few weeks ago. I deleted some unused content, and the error didn´t occur until these days. I only have one world which is 740 MB and one copy of it (in case i get killed and loose all my stuff ...). Nothing else, no downloads or mods whatsoever. The error occurs after a few minutes of playing. Restarting the game gives another few minutes of play-time, until the error occurs again... so it´s pretty unplayable. Very annoying. PLEASE, Mojang, DO SOMETHING....!!!!

I got this issue a few times and also got it again just today. I'm playing on Nintendo Switch with Minecraft version 1.19.1

It happens when I'm running my world for some long time like hours and then the game just stop with the message "Your device is almost out of space...". then after clicking "Ok", the world has restarted. If after that I tried to make a copy of the world it will complain "You are almost out of data storage space! Minecraft has restricted access to this feature until you clear up additional storage space."

If I close the Minecraft application and retry the copy world again this time it was working fine.
My guess is that it sounds like some kind of caching gets too big and then this error occurs. That's why it can be resolved by restarting the app.
So, seems restarting the Minecraft app can be a workaround for this issue until the bug gets fixed. At least for me.

It happens to me with certain maps that are around 60 MB.

I had this issue with my PS4 and PS5 (MCPE-102459), but a couple of updates ago it was fixed and so I assumed that it was fixed on all bedrock, so I got a brand new Switch, the game card version of Minecraft, and a nice 512GB MicroSD card.  It is currently the only game on the system, but here we go again, after loading a bunch of my add ons I'm getting that familiar error, so I'm stuck.  I have no worlds, I haven't got that far yet.  Given the amount of space I have, and that it's currently the only game on the system it's completely impossible for my Switch to actually have run out of space.

this is a seperat issue as the Playstation issues that is clearly differentiated by not having been merged with the mentioned Playstation issue. The reason behind the occurrence of the issue on switch got explained in the comments as well already. So please make sure to read them before writing a new comment to avoid not adding anything new to the conversation or raising questions that have already been answered. New comments give everyone that watches the issue an email alert.

And a tldr for the infos so far:

This issue is caused by savegames on the switch being restricted to a specific file size by Nintendo. All content of Minecraft on switch is stored in said savefile (Marketplace content and worlds).

Many thanks, Cederick - much appreciated.

I recently started getting the issue on a world of mine that I converted after not having played it since before the Cliffs update. This is on a fresh minecraft install on a switch that had never run the game before.

I deleted some duplicate worlds and am now using a new world, but it's really frustrating that this is even a thing that can happen.

Either the limit needs to go up (If nintendo allows other games like Animal Crossing to use > 2GB, why not freakin' Minecraft!?), or there should be the option to have world size limits on weaker hardware.

Having infinite worlds is actually a minus when you can't go nuts with them for fear of locking yourself out of further editing.

Affects 1.19.22

i got this same issue on Nintendo switch bedrock marketplace, where i can't download anything and it says i have not enough space, even though i have alot of space on my sd card, i tried deleting things, but it still won't work

Still no solution in Minecraft 1.19.51… as I additionally can’t upload my world to my realm (Minecraft crashes at around 60% of the upload process) I won’t be able play any more… very frustrating

Does anyone know if there has been any movement on this issue?  It’s going on 5 years and I still can’t play most of the worlds we’ve paid for. Is there a workaround?  Is there an interest in fixing this bug? 

Affects 1.19.60

I deleted 1.2GB of texture packs from my device and was still unable to download a 600MB texture pack. So this doesn't seem to be just about the space limitations from the Switch itself, the Marketplace sometimes won't let you download something even if you have enough space in that 2GB save that you're allowed.

Same issue here, my son (7 years) bought from his pocket money a texture map an now we can't download it. We deleted more or less everything (Worlds, other packs, ...) but we still get the message that there is not enough space (665 MB) available.

@Mojang: Your customers (mainly kids) are paying for that and don't get the expected value back, please put more focus on this issue. Thank you

Version: 1.19.63

Thanks for prioritizing this topic

We have also been having this problem for over a year. We would like to download a world we have been playing on a realm for 3 years or so and can’t. It’s scary that we could lose the world because we can’t save it to the Switch. I hope this gets resolved soon, since it’s been known for 3 years. 
other than that we love Minecraft and it’s a great family game for us that spans generations. 

I have found a workaround to fix it. free up some space, the game can only hold so much data itself, so delete a world template or two that you haven't used in a while.

The suggestion to free up some space doesn't always work. For instance, the texture pack that I am unable to download cannot be downloaded on a completely empty profile. Even if there are no worlds, texture packs, templates or anything else, it will not allow you to download it and will claim that there isn't enough space. Having the entire 2GB of save space available isn't enough for a 650MB texture pack for some reason.

The suggestion to free up some space doesn't always work.

Thats right, we deleted everything to free up as much space as possible, nonetheless it doesn't work.

Mojang team, please prioritize this issue!

I guess my next question is how do I get a refund for this texture pack that is impossible to actually use on the Switch? Since Minecraft made available a product with no way for the user to be able to tell that it wouldn't work before purchasing, I think a refund is in order.

Reply from @unknown:
The bug tracker is not the place to ask for or discuss refunds. Please use the Minecraft Help Center for that.
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Just wondering, is anything is being done about this problem?

Any progress/feedback on the issue?

Issue still apparent in 1.20.1. I have deleted around 100mb of marketplace content, (almost everything I own) and around 400mb worth of world data, yet I still cannot download a 250mb world. As shown below, I am quite far below the 2gb data limit for Minecraft Nintendo Switch. It’s completely ludicrous.

This is literally a 100% game breaking bug. This should have the highest priority possible.

The bug is listed here as resolved. What am I missing? I have exactly the same issue, even though the Switch is running on the latest software version.

When trying to download a world that I've purchased I'm getting the error "Not Enough Space - 289 MB - You do not have enough space available on your device to download the..."

Minecraft occupies 1.2 GB

Free Space on device storage 49 GB

Free Space on mircoSD Card 132 GB

This issue is not resolved. After deleting worlds and addons enough to download a new addon my son purchased, we're still getting the error. The "work around" is delete your entire save profile, which is absolutely pitiful. Why should we have to delete worlds we've created together and want to keep when there's absolutely no reason we ought to if there's still plenty of space?

Re-open the issue.

A possible solution to see if the 2GB limit is imposed by Nintendo or Minecraft is to find another game that you can download packs in game for and see if it only allows you to take up 2GB of space. If it only allows 2GB of space then Nintendo have set the restriction. If you can go over 2GB then it's a bug within Minecraft.

I'd suggest if the restriction is done by Nintendo is to tell Nintendo about the issue and request removing the 2GB limit per game per profile.

It appears to me as though this is an issue with the way that Minecraft clears internal save data from the Storage tab in settings.

Putting aside the fact that the switch imposes a 2GB limit on save files (this won't be changed as it is a blanket policy that Nintendo impose on all switch games) the problem for my kids is that, despite deleting nearly all their worlds and removing several pieces of content to make the figures in the storage total less than 2GB, the save file on the console data page is still showing as 2GB.

I expect that investigating the cause of this discrepancy would fix this issue for many users here. As it happens I now have to explain to my kids why they can't use anything from the marketplace, nor download anything new from the marketplace without completely deleting all their save data for every world.