internal to external drive, without flat out deletion

Hi. I have an xbox one with an attached external seagate 1TB drive which is half full. It is configured to install new games to the external storage and has been for a long time.

My son has the latest COD game install on the external drive taking up just over 100GB space. Internal drive almost out of space now since the War Zone 100GB update a few days ago and when I checked what is installed it also has the COD files on it. I cannot
select move to external as it says they are already there. I have no option to delete internal storage copies of files, only to uninstall.

Question: how can I remove internal copies of files without deleting game from console? I am scared if the 'uninstall' option will delete from external storage as well.

Many thanks in advance.

Hi,

I suggest you go in the My Games & App section and select the "Internal Archive" option with the filter and then try unistall the game. You can also remove the external drive in order to be sure that you are deleting only the copy that is in the internal
drive.

I do move, but it seems the games just copied, and when i check whats on my drives the games appear on the internal and external drive, then when i delete from the internal drive, the game also deletes from the external drive?

I remember when i dowloaded doom3 it did say must be installed on the internal drive, are some games restricted to only allowed to be on the internal drive?

I'm trying to figure out whether or not the Xbox One will still function with an external hard drive without the internal one?

You are using transfer, which is to move the contents of your internal hard drive to the external hard drive instead of copying, you do not need to manually delete the contents of the internal hard drive (because they are already on the external hard drive).

Try moving them to the internal drive. Some games do act strange when they are on a external drive. If this does not solve it delete and reinstall ONTO the internal drive.