Transferring photos to a pen drive is simple with the right tools.
One of the best things about technology today is its portability. With the advent of small digital cameras, laptop computers and pen drives (also known as USB drives, flash drives or thumb drives), you can literally take your photo library with you anywhere you go. Although you can't get your images directly from your camera to your pen drive, simply using your computer as an intermediary step makes transferring your images simple.
Instructions
1. Attach your camera's transfer cable to the camera and to your computer's USB port. Ensure a secure connection and that your camera's battery is fully charged. If your camera has an A/C adapter, use that instead of running off battery power.
2. The pen drive, also known as a USB, thumb or flash drive.
Insert the pen drive to the USB port. Ensure a secure connection, and wait for the drive to mount to your computer. Alternately, if you have a card reader for your computer and you can remove the memory card from your camera, insert the memory card into the reader and wait for the card to mount.
3. Removable memory cards are an easy way to transfer images from your camera.
Locate the memory card or camera in your drive hierarchy. In Windows systems, the memory card will mount as a drive or removable disk. On Macs, the card will mount as a drive. In either operating system, if a camera is connected directly to the computer, you may need special software provided by the camera's manufacturer to move pictures off the camera.
4. Open the camera's transfer software and locate your camera, usually designated by its model number in the main window. Your images will show up as file names in the window. Select them all and click the "Download" or "Transfer" button (or the equivalent in your software). The images will download to the default location you chose when first setting up the software.
If you're using the card reader, simply drag and drop the images from the card to a folder on your computer. It's a good idea to label the folder with the date or location where the images were taken.
5. Open two separate windows (on a Windows machine, Windows Explorer; on a Mac machine, open the Finder). Open the downloaded images folder in one window and the pen drive's folder in the other window.
6. Click on each image you want to transfer to the pen drive, holding down the "Ctrl" button (Windows) or the "Command" button (Mac) to select multiple images at the same time. Drag the images from the location on your computer to the pen drive window, and release the mouse button to begin transferring the images. Repeat this step for all the images you want to transfer.
7. Unmount or eject the pen drive from your computer before physically removing it from the USB port. This allows the computer to make sure that any information doesn't get lost before it can be saved.
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