My clips got deleted?

Hi, I hope you're doing great out there. I am an Independent advisor and I am here to help you in regard to your concern.

I would like to clarify, did you make any changes such as resetting the console? That will not delete or remove any game clips that weren't uploaded to OneDrive and were left on the Xbox console's local storage.

You can try performing a powercycle on your console by following the steps below:

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POWERCYCLE CONSOLE​​​

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1. Turn off your console by holding the Xbox button on the front of the console for approximately 10 seconds. The console will turn off. ​​​

2. Turn your console back on by pressing the Xbox button on the console or the Xbox button on your controller. ​​​

After that check your game clips again.

I clearly remember taking the time to do everything including saving them...

If you don't save your clips they get deleted to save space

I deleted all my old clips and cannot clip still

edit: additional information. It seems that, further to not being able to save clips that were created offline, these clips can unexpectedly get deleted from your drive before you can do anything with them. I think this is part of the syncing process.

The other day, I had some clips that were visible on my drive which I was going to edit in Upload and save as clips on the cloud (the only way to save them).

However, for some reason when I connected my Xbox to do that, the clips got removed after the syncing process. It was as if the cloud said 'sorry, these clips aren't on MY drive, so therefore, I can't acknowledge the fact that these clips exist on YOUR drive'.
And they just got deleted, or hidden. This bummed me out to a massive degree since they were great moments that I wanted to save.

Very frustrating. As with lots of things with this console. Ideas are great on paper but if they're not executed properly they are just millstones.