Game captures folder....I moved it

Hi, and thanks for reaching out. My name is Miguel O., Sorry to hear you're experiencing this issue!

DaveM121 Independent Advisor posted a solution to a user who had a similar issue:

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Is there an actual captures folder located here: I:\My Drive\Captures

The default location in the Registry in Windows 10 for that folder should be set to this:

%USERPROFILE%\Videos\Captures

....I think the best option is to create a new folder named Captures inside your Videos folder in your user profile.

Then, edit the registry to set the value data on that key to this and click OK:

%USERPROFILE%\Videos\Captures

Restart (not shut down) your PC and check if the captures are being saved to that folder.

If they are, right click that new Captures Folder and choose Properties, then on the location tab of that folder set the location to that other folder on the I drive."

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I did exactly as this link shows, but redirecting to a slave drive's root.

The difference is, I didn't create a new folder on the separate drive before clicking ok. Somehow that made the real Captures folder go into the abyss.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/87523-move-location-game-dvr-captures-folder-windows-10-a.html

The capture folder is now completely missing. It cannot be located, and every time I re-open the game bar now it has decided to place where captures are saved in a different odd place. It went from the root of the slave drive of where I tried to move the captures
folder to, to the Videos folder, to the temp folder, and now to the system recovery partition. It's acting weird. I even uninstalled and reinstalled the game bar. No change.

No, I am not able to access the original 'Captures' folder from the Videos folder in the C Drive as I moved it to a portable hard drive. I created a new 'Captures' folder in the C Drive, but the Game Bar doesn't want to recognize it as a new one, that's
my issue. Is there a way to make the new folder a default location for new captures?

If I understand what you are talking about, it sounds like you need to empty the capture folder on your PC. The Game Bar will show the files that are in the capture folder. When you moved the capture folder it sounds like it changed the modified date
on your old captures so they all showed up as recent again.

Hello TheraYx,

In addition, the tutorial below can help show you how to move the Captures folder used for recorded game clips by Game DVR.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/87523-move-location-game-dvr-captures-folder-windows-10-a.html