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Delete All Items in GT5

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We sometimes write about gaming here on Computers Made Simple. While we don’t play many video games, we do spend much of our spare time playing Gran Turismo 5. Yes, we’ve pre-ordered GT6 which comes out in December. At some point in the game, depending on how often you play it and how often you log in to your Playstation account, your GT5 item list will get full. By full we mean over 2500 paints, hundreds of racing outfits and hundreds of helmets.

Once you hit the limit, and we’re not sure what that limit is, you have to delete these items or you won’t get your 200% bonus for credits. GT5 tries to add items but your storage is full so it lowers your bonus accordingly. We rarely paint a car except for those we sometimes give to online friends so deleting them wasn’t a problem. If you’re in the same situation, here’s how to delete the items in groups, as opposed to one by one.

1. Here’s what you want to see when you start GT5, having signed in to your Playstation account:  (The pics are from a digital camera as opposed to screen caps. Sorry for the quality.)

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We’re not concerned with the items but we do want to collect the 200% credit bonus.

2. There is an error warning that comes up when your item storage is full:

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Time to delete some paints.

3. Head over to your item box:

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Looks like a suitcase on the left side of your screen.

4. Once you’re in the item storage area, scroll down to Paints. You can delete racing outfits and/or helmets too but we had way too many paints and had to delete them. This system works for anything you want to delete:

 

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We only have 252 now but we deleted 2300 earlier this week.

5. Down at the bottom of your screen, you’ll see ‘L1’ and ‘Select Multiple’. By the way, make sure you’re using your controller NOT your wheel, if you have one, to do this.

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Press L1 to Select Multiple paints.

6. If you want to go through and select some, go ahead. We wanted to delete them all so we pressed the square button (purple) on the controller, just as it told us on the bottom of the screen after we pressed L1:

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Press the square button to select them all.

7. Everything has a blue check to the left of it:

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If you have multiples of the same item, this system will only delete the first, not all of them.

8. TIP: This process will not select multiples of the same paint color, right? It will select one only. To get rid of them all, you have to do this trick several times.

9. Once you have selected the ones you want to delete, press the triangle (green) button to bring up a menu:

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The triangle button brings up the Menu below.

10. This is the menu, delete or cancel.

 

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Delete or cancel. We chose Delete.

 

That’s it! We’re back to normal again, minus a few thousand paint items. Now when we log on, we get the full 200% bonus. Let us know if you have problems with this. It’s pretty straightforward but let us know if you need help.

Thanks for reading!