Remember back in October when Microsoft announced that changes were being made to the upload feature on Xbox, and your screenshots and clips on the Xbox Network would be deleted starting in January 2024? Well, we're here!
As of Tuesday (January 9th) this week, your captures will be deleted from the Xbox Network if they've been there for 90 days or more. That means if you want to keep them, you'll need to back them up - either to an external storage device or to a Microsoft OneDrive account. Here's how to do both of those things:
How To Back Up Xbox Captures To An External Drive
- Plug an external storage device (USB 3.0, NTFS-formatted) into your Xbox. Note that storage formatted for Xbox games won't work for captures.
- Go to "My Captures"
- Hit "Manage"
- Select the captures you want to back up
- Choose "Copy to external storage"
How To Back Up Xbox Captures To Microsoft OneDrive
- Go to "My Captures"
- Hit "Manage"
- Select the captures you want to back up
- Choose "Upload to OneDrive"
In addition to this, you can tell your Xbox to automatically save captures to an external drive or OneDrive in the future. The option for this can be found under the little Settings icon next to "Manage". Just keep in mind that if you pick OneDrive, a free account only has so much available space, so you may run out of storage eventually.
You should keep in mind that local captures can occasionally be deleted as well (we've definitely spotted this in the past), so it's always worth backing up anything you really like. We've got many years' worth of great clips going all the way back to the Xbox One launch that we're definitely not willing to lose!
What are your thoughts on this? Let us know down in the comments section below.
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Hplow do u format?
@Kaloudz Yep, that's how it'll be from now on.
@Vipor007 If you want to format a drive for NTFS, that's something you'll need to do on a PC.
https://support.xbox.com/help/hardware-network/connect-network/format-flash-drive-to-ntfs-windows
I thought it was only deleting captures that are 90 days old from your Network Storage, not the captures that are saved to your Xbox already (which the system does by default before uploading to network storage).
If that's the case, you don't have to setup a whole external just for captures.
@FraserG Cheers
@Kaloudz Just set the capture location to OneDrive and you don't have to think about it anymore.
@Kaloudz I also just realized by doing that and setting to where it ONLY uploads to OneDrive you would avoid any kind of potential ban like what's happening with baldur's gate because it would never go to the Xbox network.
For as many screenshots I take across all platforms, I never actually go back to look at them. Then again I take a lot of pictures on my phone and never bother to look at them either 😄
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