How to copy installed gamepass games on PC to external drive?

you cant, you can move them to an external but they are encrypted for the current computer that installed it, so no other pc will be able to use it or even open the folder.

unlike steam where you can copy the folders gamepass for pc and windows store install everything under encrypted folders only.

Hi,

It's not a bug.

As terrible as it is, it is how it is meant to function. An awful design choice. Basically the 'WindowsApps' folders no matter what drive they're on can not be moved, copied or cloned. They're encrypted and moving them somehow breaks this encryption.

This is for all Windows Apps, not just GamePass. PC GamePass app is just a portal anyway, all games are installed via the Windows Store.

Thanks for the feedback

So, did you downloaded the game on your external hard drive with another PC and you connected the same external device to a different PC and tried to play the game and then it was when the error appeared?

And yes, in that case try creating a new NTFS partition on your external drive and see how it goes the installation

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I'm not having any success with this. Let me explain again so theyre no confusions...

I recently installed ALL of my games (from physical original discs) onto one hexternal hard drive. I want to now copy the contents onto a dofferent external drive. It will only copy over the games i have downloaded from the xbox store and wont let me copy
any of the installed discs. When i try to copy one game at a time it "Some Items were skipped. To see what they were, go to Settings......." It wont move the disc-installed games.

Is this normal? Is there any way i can copy to entire drive on my PC? It wont read either drive when i plug them into my Windows 10 PC for some reason...

Thanks for the help.

Sorry for your trouble ThomasForbes1,

what make and model is your external drive. Have you already hooked up the external drive to a PC and checked the drive for errors? The games currently allocated on the external drive - were they copied or moved from the internal drive? Were the games on
the external drive directly downloaded to it?

Since the game(s) load without the external drive being connected you seemingly have correct game binaries on your internal drive and I am assuming you may have copies of the same game binaries on the external drive. The copy and move function can be confusing
when working with storage (e.g. internal and external hdd)

Best regards

Sassan Karai