How to delete individual saves

Kelly Lowery1 · Jul 15, 2023

On my Xbox One, I just want to delete individual saves of a game, not the entire game data and the game itself. I am not seeing anywhere where I can do that. When I go to storage it just gives me the option to delete the data and games themselves locally. When I go to manage games and add-ons and also does not give me the option to delete individual game saves. Can someone tell me how to do so if possible, because there are saves I am never going to play/open again and I do not want them up there anymore.

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WattyNuela

Hello Kelly, this is Manuela. I'm an Independent Advisor and community user like you, ready to assist with this.
Not a Microsoft employee.

Depending on the game, you should be able to see an option to delete individually the saved progress you don’t need, or overwrite it with a new game.
May I know what game is the one you want to delete the progress individually?

Rodrigo Oliver

Hello HennyHardawayDDU,

No, we can only delete the entire saves, not individually.

andersonpassos

Thank you for contact us! I'm Anderson, an Independent Consultant and a Microsoft user like you.

good evening

It is generally possible to delete a single save file for a game, rather than all of the save files at once. The specific method for doing this will depend on the platform on which the game is running and the specific game itself.

On a computer, you can often delete individual save files by navigating to the folder where the game stores its save files and deleting the specific file that you want to remove. The location of the save files will vary depending on the game and the operating system that you are using.

On a console, you can often delete individual save files by accessing the system's storage management menu and selecting the specific save file that you want to delete. The exact steps for doing this will depend on the specific console that you are using.

If you are unable to delete a specific save file using these methods, it is possible that the game does not allow individual save files to be deleted. In this case, you may need to delete all of the save files and start over if you want to reset your progress in the game.

MightyQuinn75

If I remember correctly you end up with multiple saves on Falout 4. You can actually delete individual saves. If you can get to the load game screen without crashing you can view them all and delete individual saves. Alternatively you would need to
go to games, manage the game and delete from console and cloud. But you would lose all progress so that really should be a last port of call.

DoggishApollo4

Thanks for the reply.

I had to delete my entire Fallout 4 save from the cloud and local. Everything lost. Easily over 600 hours, and 5 different characters. Sigh...

I understand why they won't allow us backing up our saves to a USB drive... everyone's a cheater in their eyes, but I will NEVER understand why we can't delete one single save that is corrupting our ONE entire game save file like we could on the 360. Ridiculous...

How to delete individual saves