Manage your downloads

Find out more about managing your content downloads on PS3.

Download Management

[Download Management] is a feature under Network.

An icon is displayed when a background download is being performed and you can check the status of the data being downloaded.

Checking download status: Select the icon of the data for which you want to check the downloading status, press the Triangle button, and then select [Status] from the options menu.

Cancelling download: Select the icon of the data for which you want to cancel download, press the Triangle button, and then select [Cancel Download] from the options menu. After the download has been cancelled, it will be cleared from [Download Management].

Resuming download: Download data again for data that failed to download correctly before. Select the icon of the data you want to resume downloading, press the Triangle button, and then select [Resume Download] from the options menu.

Options menu for Download Management

The options menu items under [Download Management] has a number of settings.

Pause All: Pause downloading of all data.
Resume All: Resume downloading of all data.
Status: Display the status of data that is being downloaded in the background.
Pause/Resume: Pause/resume downloading of selected data.
Cancel: Cancel downloading of selected data.