Xbox Game Bar didn't save and lost my video.

Hi there Ceecee welcome to the community forum! Christopher here, an Xbox fan just like you and has been on Xbox for years already. I would really love to make your day by helping you out. Unfortunately, there's no way to retrieve the recording since it has stopped and was not saved. This case seems like a corrupted recording, have suffered multiple times myself.

Hello, I'm Felipe and I'm an independent Community Expert, and I'll do my best to help you.

The temporary data for background recordings in the Windows Game Bar is stored in the RAM of your computer and is not saved to disk. It is stored as a buffer in the memory, and the video is not saved to disk until you explicitly choose to save it by pressing Win + Alt + G and selecting "Save".

Once you choose to save the recording, it is saved to a folder of your choice on your local disk. By default, the saved recordings are stored in the "Videos" folder in your "Documents" directory. You can change the default save location for the recordings by going to the Windows Game Bar settings and modifying the "Recorded videos" option.

Hi,

They only thing I can suggest is looking at the folder where the video's are saved and looking at it with the hidden files also view-able.

Even if you do find a video there, it's likely to be corrupt and won't play. If there is nothing there then I'm afraid it didn't save and there won't be a way to retrieve it.

Game Bar uses your PCs graphics hardware to encode video's in real-time. Since this is accomplished in hardware, you can actually use third party applications to do the same thing. These other apps can even record your desktop.

If you have a gaming PC with a dedicated GPU from NVIDIA or AMD, you download their free software to do the same video recording that Game Bar can do.

So I was recording with the xbox game bar and I forgot to stop it and I closed the computer and left it running for an hour. When I opened up the computer, the recording was stopped but I didn't see the recording in my captures. Where did it go and how do I find it?

It may have gotten deleted by accident due to it being turned off it did not save the video file.

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I assume by the 'playback feature' you mean the record time? The Windows Game Bar maximum record time that can be set is 4hrs. This can be changed in Windows Settings > Gaming > Captures.

The Windows Game-Bar uses a video recording codec that requires the file to be finalised in order for it to be saved. This means that either if the recording is stopped via the Game Bar or the recording ends on its own once the maximum time is reached, the file should save. If for some reason there a fault or a system crash, the video recording won't save as it won't complete the 'finalising' process.