Is there any easy way to save captures from the Xbox console?

Hi Jacob!

May I confirm if your clips and captures are saved on your internal storage or external storage?

Let's make sure that automatic upload is enabled.
Press the Xbox button to open the guide, and then go to Profile & system > Settings > Preferences > Capture & share > Automatically upload.

To upload a capture that wasn’t uploaded automatically, select the capture, and then select Upload.

Unfortunately captures are automatically deleted from the Xbox network after 90 days now. You could try opening the Captures app and selecting "On this Xbox console" from the drop-down list at the upper-left, as clips are not automatically deleted from the console itself after 90 days, although they do get deleted from there over time as you capture new clips and screenshots. It's worth checking though.

What I do is set the console to automatically upload my captures to both the Xbox network and OneDrive, as they are not automatically deleted from OneDrive and it makes it easy to save any ones that I want to keep on my PC. Unfortunately, you can't share clips uploaded to OneDrive on your profile or via an Xbox message, which is why I upload to both.

But yeah, if your missing clips are not on the console itself and you only uploaded them to the Xbox network, they are gone for good I'm afraid.

Hi again,

Just to quote from the article about external storage for game clips:

https://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/console/capturing-game-clips-to-external-storage

"While this is a convenient way to port your clips and screenshots to a PC, saving captures externally means you can’t edit them in Upload Studio or share them on Xbox Live, like clips captured directly
to your Xbox."

I don't think there will be any way around it. Sorry.

Screenshots and clips use a limited reserved disc space to save to your console, not the whole capacity of the console disc drive. Once the limit is reached any new shots or clips will overwrite the oldest captures on the console. Upload any captures you wish to keep to the Xbox network and/or to Onedrive. From there you can share to Activity feed, Clubs etc.

I think that file management is something we need on Xbox and I'm sad to see the File Explorer removed. With all the captures, save files and game add-ons we need an easy way to manage our internal HDD.