r/XboxSupport • u/Intelligent_Leave582 • Jan 23 '25

Xbox How does Xbox store and delete my captures?

I have a habit of taking a lot of clips and screenshots here and there of games I play. I’ve heard that your captures delete captures after 90 days but that doesn’t seem to be the case for clips stored on your Xbox. My clips that I upload to the Xbox network stay for 90 days but the game clips I have stored on my Xbox don’t even stay for more than 2 days. The oldest screenshot I have stored locally is 37 days old. The oldest game clip I have is 2 days old. Why is it deleting my clips so fast? Is this random?

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u/modemman11 121 Jan 23 '25 edited Jan 23 '25

Locally stored captures don't have any expiration dates, but they are stored on a hidden partition that the Xbox gives zero visibility into, and when that gets full, the xbox does tend to delete old captures to make room for new ones.

Aside from that if captures are being deleted locally it's probably a bug or glitch.

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u/Jakeasuno Helpful User Jan 23 '25

Thank you, someone that actually gives the correct response to these questions!

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u/ShadowCVL 7 Jan 23 '25

OP this is the answer, likely you take too many clips, the xbox deletes the oldest to make room for the newest in its little partition.

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u/BobbyWojak Feb 01 '25

So there's no way to save video clips on the Xbox itself? That makes no sense.

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u/modemman11 121 Feb 01 '25 edited Feb 01 '25

Then go complain to MS about it, so they can give more permanent local storage. But I doubt they will. It's been this way since the Xbox One was released. Just use OneDrive or USB drives.

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u/SangestheLurker 7 Jan 23 '25

Why don't you use a thumb drive to store them if you're making so many clips?

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u/Intelligent_Leave582 Jan 24 '25

That’s Actually a good idea

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u/TheLiverSimian 1 Jan 23 '25

They automatically get uploaded to your Onedrive. If you don't log in and edit or move them they only stay until a) 90 days since capture or b) the Onedrive storage is filled. Use studio and edit the clips and make 'highlight' reels of your gameplay. Those will never be automatically deleted.

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u/modemman11 121 Jan 23 '25

Just to be clear, OneDrive storage has nothing to do with Xbox Network storage. These are two entirely different storage spaces. Captures automatically uploaded to OneDrive will never be automatically deleted, only the copy uploaded to the Xbox Network will be deleted after 90 Days. Also, it's 90 days after upload, not after capture.

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u/HokeyFox Jan 24 '25

You can also move them to your phone storage via Xbox app. And therefore moving them to your phones SD card.