Xbox windows app doesnt carry over game data from console?

Hello, Mary____. Thanks for reaching out! My name is Lucas, and I'm an Independent Advisor and a Microsoft user just like you. I'll be happy to assist you today.

It depends on the game. If the game is a Xbox Play Anywhere game or it supports cross platform/cross save, the Xbox app will load all game data from the console (which is saved on the cloud) to your PC. This is an automatic process. You don't have to do anything.

If the game does not support cross platform/cross save or is not a Xbox Play Anywhere game, unfortunately the console saved data will not "transfer" or carry over to the PC since the PC version of the game is different from the console version.

If you have any question, please let me know.

If the game is play anywhere, your saves will transfer, but only in those cases.

Your save data will carry over as long as you are using the same account you played on earlier. Your data will carry over for both digital (from the Xbox/Microsoft Store) and physical version (disc from anywhere) of the game.

No. 360 game saves do not transfer to the One at all. For some games, in-game stats and things will carry over, but not game saves.

Can I transfer them with a flashdrive or an external HDD?