1. Find where your clips land
- Xbox Game Bar (Win + Alt + R): Videos\Captures. Clips are MP4, screenshots PNG, and each file is named after the game plus the date and time.
- OBS Studio: your Videos folder by default, named by date and time, such as 2026-11-12 21-04-33.mkv.
- NVIDIA (Instant Replay and recordings): under your Videos folder by default, but it varies by version. Open a clip from the NVIDIA overlay's Gallery to see where yours go.
2. Sort Game Bar captures by game
Because Game Bar puts the game's name in every file name, a rule per game you play can file them: anything in Videos\Captures whose name contains Minecraft goes to Captures\Minecraft\2026, and so on. Add a rule for each game you clip often; everything else stays put.
3. Sort OBS recordings by month
OBS names don't include the game, but they do start with the year, so a rule that watches Videos for MKV or MP4 files whose name starts with 20 catches recordings without touching other videos, and moves them into a folder per month.
4. Move old clips off your main drive
Clips are big. Add a rule for anything over 1 GB that's more than 90 days old and move it to a folder on a bigger drive, such as D:\Clips archive. Your best moments are kept; your SSD gets its space back.
The TidyFile rule
Minecraft clips
- When a file
- in Videos\Captures · name contains Minecraft
- Then
- move to Videos\Captures\Minecraft\{year}
Tip: folders like Documents or Pictures mean your own folders. In TidyFile, click Browse to pick the folder, then add the rest, such as \{year}. A folder typed without a drive letter is created inside the watched folder instead.
Set it up once and TidyFile applies it in the background, to new files the moment they arrive. Preview what it'll do to the files already there, and undo anything from the activity log.
Questions
Where does Xbox Game Bar save clips?+
In the Captures folder inside Videos: C:\Users\your-name\Videos\Captures. You can change it under Settings → Gaming → Captures in Windows 11.
Where does OBS save recordings?+
In your Videos folder by default, with file names made from the date and time. You can check or change it under Settings → Output → Recording.
Can TidyFile sort clips that are already in per-game folders?+
No. TidyFile sorts files sitting directly in the folder a rule watches and leaves subfolders alone. If your capture tool already makes a folder per game, point a rule at the folder where new clips land instead.