It won't let me capture anything on my Xbox and it says cloud gaming is blocking captures

Try going into Settings, Preferences, and then Capture & Share.

From there check to see if under Capture in the first block that says, "Allow game captures", and see if it either shows: "Captures by me or games" or "Capture by me."

If it says, "Don't capture", then change it to either one of the other two options.

My stupid Xbox won't let me copy captures to OneDrive as my "privacy settings don't allow it". 🙄 I've been into the 'family settings' and its already on 'allow' for ME sharing to external communications. It is still blocked on the front of others being able to do this, but I certainly can according to this setting. Yet, after all of that, and blocking it/allowing it again, will it work? Of course not. Has anyone got any solutions to this obvious bug in the Xbox settings functionality? OneDrive is my last straw for saving my captures before they start disappearing as otherwise there is no hope.

I can't see my deleted videos which are stuck on my game capture cloud storage

Something is definitely going on. Xbox Support needs to acknowledge this. Game captures stored in the cloud are corrupt and can't be deleted or viewed.

I just tried to Capture a 2 minute playback with 1080p resolution. I went in and selected the Capture time as usual, so it should have captured it. It's been 10 minutes and my Xbox hasn't told me it's captured anything, and nothing shows up on my
Recent Captures list.

try to restart your Xbox

I just tried to Capture a 2 minute playback with 1080p resolution. I went in and selected the Capture time as usual, so it should have captured it. It's been 10 minutes and my Xbox hasn't told me it's captured anything, and nothing shows up on my
Recent Captures list.

Restart it, and clear the cache and try again