# Saving MSO captures without capture history

**URL:** <https://discuss.saleae.com/t/saving-mso-captures-without-capture-history/3701>\
**Category:** Logic MSO\
**Created:** [April 19, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/saving-mso-captures-without-capture-history/3701 "2026-04-19T18:21:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![dario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@dario](https://discuss.saleae.com/u/dario)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 6:21pm UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/saving-mso-captures-without-capture-history/3701/1 "2026-04-19T18:21:50Z")

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Hi All,

I’m not sure if this is already a feature that I couldn’t find in the docs, but I’d like to be able to save a capture without saving the entire history in triggered mode (or at least having a way to flush the history or delete certain captures from the history).

This would reduce a lot of file size bloat with these captures while letting me preserve the full information of the capture for review later.

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**Author:** ![timreyes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discuss.saleae.com/timreyes/32/108_2.png) [@timreyes](https://discuss.saleae.com/u/timreyes)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2026, 7:41pm UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/saving-mso-captures-without-capture-history/3701/2 "2026-04-22T19:41:07Z")

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@dario Sorry for the trouble with that! Trimming capabilities are planned for a future release. I don’t have an immediate timeline to share with you on that yet, but I can share an update in case we have more news to share.

In the meantime, could Mark’s workaround below help out?

> [@MSO raw extraction other function limitation](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/mso-raw-extraction-other-function-limitation/3592/2):
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> Hi @sooseok.sim1, Sorry for the trouble with this, we still need to add these features to Logic MSO. It’s on the list. In the short term though, you can right-click a timing marker pair and select “zoom on pair” then export with the “visible screen” range selected. However the zoom feature will zoom out a touch past the pairs range, so the export file will contain a bit more data than that. Please let us know if you have any other issues with your Logic MSO, and send us any feedback you have! …

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**Author:** ![dario](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@dario](https://discuss.saleae.com/u/dario)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://discuss.saleae.com/t/saving-mso-captures-without-capture-history/3701/3 "2026-05-28T22:29:47Z")

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Hi tim,

The current work around for me is to just create a new capture window for every capture I save and limit the # of triggers I actually record. This makes capture files much more manageable size-wise and is not too much trouble to do.