GameDVR:Moving/copying videos to external drive??

Hello Kursaalflyer,

Thank you for your quick response.

It appears that the capture location for your external drive is saved to GameDVR folder and XboxCapture copies folder. When copying multiple copies it goes directly to Xbox Capture Copies folder while captures clip is directly saved to GameDVR folder.

The GameDVR folder in external storage is a folder that contains the game clips and screenshots that you have recorded using the Xbox Game DVR feature on your console. The Game DVR feature allows you to capture your gameplay moments and share them with your friends or on social media. After recording clips, your external drive can now be plugged into a PC, where the traditional video files can be extracted. This essentially turns your console into a simple capture card, allowing recordings to be locally transferred for use in PC-based editing software. All files created by Game DVR can be found under the "Game DVR" folder automatically created on your drive.

The Xbox capture copies folder in external drive is a folder that contains the copies of the game clips and screenshots that you have recorded using the Xbox Game DVR feature on your console and then transferred to your external drive. The Xbox Game DVR feature allows you to capture your gameplay moments and share them with your friends or on social media. By transferring your game captures to an external drive, you can save space on your internal drive, backup your captures, and access them on other devices.

You can edit both the files saved on the GameDVR folder and the Xbox capture copies folder using PC editing tools. The difference is that the files on the GameDVR folder are the ones that you have recorded directly to your external drive by setting it as your capture location, while the files on the Xbox capture copies folder are the ones that you have copied or moved from your internal drive to your external drive. Both folders contain the same type of files, which are MP4 video files for game clips and PNG image files for screenshots.

For your reference, see: Capture Xbox game clips to external storage | Xbox Support

We look forward to your response. Kindly let us know, if there is any misunderstanding or clarifications of our description by sending us a reply.



Sincerely,

Hi,

I have some results to questions.

1. I only recently used an external drive to copy clips following a recent XBox notification that older clips would start to be deleted.

2. I now copied 20 clips to the external drive connected to the XBox rear USB (previously I used the front USB). Only 10 copied to the newly created XBoxCaptureCopies.

3. I set the XBox to save clips to the external drive as you described and created one. The system responded saying copy made to external drive. When I checked no clip was copied to the XBoxCaptureCopies folder BUT I noticed a GameDVR folder and that is where the clips had been stored. When I tried to play via Window Media Player it failed saying I needed to purchase the correct Codex, thats another issue.

4. As mentioned the external 1TB drive is my laptop back up with 865MB free. I have a seperate games backup drive but I was reluctant to use that as I was not sure if the backup app would format the drive before use.

Did some further testing

Made a clip after setting external drive as capture. The Clip was saved to the GameDVR folder. It appears when you select multiple files to copy they all try and go to the XBoxCaptureCopies folder whereas captures made at the time go to the GameDVR folder. Very confusing.

Hope this is helpful.

Why are you copying the game over instead of moving it to the external drive? That way you don't have to delete it after you moved it.

And maybe you accidentally already moved it, and deleted it from the external drive when it was already moved (deleted) from the internal drive.

If you have enough space on your external HDD, copy everything there from inside the Xbox.

Make sure your saved games are in the cloud. Then on the new one just set your default drive to the external

Open Settings on the Xbox One.

Open the System tab.

Select Storage.

Select the internal drive.

Select Transfer.

Select items you plan to transfer. If moving all items, choose Select all.

Choose Copy selected to copy the items between drives.

To move the items, select Move.

Choose the Ext. drive.

Press Copy or Move to transfer.

After transferring your games to an external hard drive, plug it into the new Xbox One.

Stored should appear in your library.

Hi tina.

That is unfortunately not possible. But you can move or copy them to an external drive.