If you have some memorable game captures from your achievement-hunting adventures saved to the Xbox Network, you might want to start backing them up now. A new Xbox message has revealed that Microsoft will start deleting Xbox game captures older than 90 days from May 30.
Microsoft announces new round of Xbox game capture deletions
Last September, Microsoft announced that game captures stored on the Xbox Network in support of longer than 90 days would start being deleted from January 2024. Strangely, though, we’re no sure if it went ahead with its plans after all. A new Xbox notification shared on Reddit (and one we have seen on our own systems) says that deletions will now start on May 30.
Whether Microsoft started deleting players’ game captures in January or negative, it looks like we now have until May 30 to back up any of the cheerful we want to keep to an external drive or OneDrive. To be clear, only screenshots and clips uploaded to the Xbox Network will be deleted, so your local captures should be safe — we would still advise you to back those up as well, just to be safe.
Last year, Microsoft added an automatic upload feature to Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One which will automatically upload your captures to your OneDrive for you. All you need to perform is log in to OneDrive with your Microsoft account to use your free 5GBs of storage — or you can subscribe to the service in exchange for more space if you wish. To enable the feature, head to the Captures menu within Settings.
As for the captures you upload to TrueAchievements in exchange for achievement guides, we now convert your clips into YouTube videos so your guides are preserved. So you don’t need to worry about your guides becoming defunct after 90 days.
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Man, that’s a bummer! I’ve got some epic game captures saved on the Xbox Network that I definitely want to keep. Good thing they gave us a heads up so we can start backing them up before May 30 hits. It’s always better to be safe than sorry, right? Gotta make sure those memories are preserved for future nostalgia trips. And hey, at least they’re not deleting our local captures, so that’s a relief. Time to start transferring those files to an external drive or OneDrive. Let’s make sure we don’t lose any of those epic gaming moments!