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I have a 2.6 GB world on xBox and I have been unable to sync to the cloud due to cloud a storage space error.   I decided to buy a realm in the hopes that I could upload the world to a realm, which from what I understand allows for worlds of up to 4GB.  Unfortunately, the initial upload of the world failed with the message in this topic and I am unable to play this world in a realm. 

This issue has returned for me in the last month or so with the "World Upload Failed.  Would you like to try again?" pop-up.   Playing on xBox. The retry button seems to do nothing.   I also was experiencing this in the 1.19x versions where the issue lead me to quit playing Minecraft for nearly a year.   I was pleased to see that the issue went away for me when I launched my world again a year later in the early 1.20x versions.

What I would add to the previous report from Adam (his symptoms are consistent with mine), is that when I make a first attempt to quit and save/upload my sessions, the upload does appear to be trying to sync and is processing for a few minutes (5-10) before I get the failed message.   If I go back into the world again (without restarting Minecraft), I get the failed message instantly upon quitting (not appearing to even attempt sync).   Additionally, if I open another (small) world without restarting Minecraft, I will get the upload failed instantly upon quitting on other worlds as well.  For the smaller worlds, this issue resets when I restart Minecraft and I am able to sync those unless I open the large world first.

It's challenging/scary because I'm not aware of a method to even detect whether and when a save game was last successfully synced in the cloud.   If there are methods to do this, It would be great of someone could share.

Thanks @OcelotOnesie for re-opening this one.

@kcarley - good video here which I think described the problems pretty well inline with what I was experiencing.  (Mods please remove of posting youtube vid out of bounds):  https://youtu.be/QiRKHzhTNOo?si=fsrAi6bi1-MvX8Uh

This one seems improved/resolved for me today in the 1.20.31 update.   I'm on xBox One S Anyone else?

Hi Arstotzkan101/all - just wanted to update what I'm seeing in my world. When I last updated, I was in a spot where my most recent world had corrupted at around 1.8 GB and was not loadable in the game.  My 2 other backups (one was a week older) would not load either - though they were not corrupted.

After you mentioned the issue had changed with 1.20.10, I decided to go in and give another try a few weeks back on what I think would have been 1.20.15. Happy to say that "something had changed" for me too and I was able to now load my worlds again. The corrupted world was loadable, but I could now see the corruption and as I walked around my world there were numerous chunks missing that were just "void." Fortunately, I was able to load the copy that was a week older, also 1.8 GB and it seemed playable as normal. I made a backup of that and have cautiously been playing since. I haven't received any corruption errors or most of the errors below. There have been a couple times where the cloud save didn't work, but it then synced next time in.
The issue that I did run into with 1.20.15 was that 1/10 tries I would freeze going into the Nether. When I re-loaded the game, it put me in a random spot in nether WAY off of where I was, which then caused the world to grow to 2.1GB. So I am reluctant to go into the nether for fear of the crash/relocation problem, but everything else seemed fine and world syncs are happening fine at 2.1GB.
With the 1.20.30 release this week, I now have a severe lag problem with mobs, arrows, dropped objects like bamboo, etc. Hoping for a next hotfix to resolve those performance/lag issues. Super happy I can get back into my world and play it again though a bit of a up down roller coaster.

Arstotzkan101, I was on xbox one x as well. All the symptoms you are describing were also the sequence of events for me. It appeared that I could keep playing through the error messages, but in doing so eventually the entire world corrupted and I was unable to even load the game. You then get all the fancy pink boxes listed above in the issue and your world is ruined. It didn't start happening for me until my world was near 1.7 or 1.8 GB and once it it 2.0 it was dead.

I am on console (xBox) as well.

I hope [Mod] GoldenHelmet looking into this is a good sign and than someone has a world that they can provide.   My family and I no longer play MineCraft because of it and do not have it installed.

This issue seemed to have started for me on xbox platform with the 1.19.31 release on October 4th.   Originally I was receiving the "You are out of data storage space..." message but was still able to restart and play through as it appeared to be a false message and all my world updates were saving.  Now when attempting to load the world, it pink screens while loading and Minecraft crashes.  Bad deal.   10 year old world that is approximately 1.8GB.  

A workaround to this issue would be greatly appreciated.