How to Download and Transfer Movies to USB

This wikiHow teaches you how to copy a movie you just downloaded to your Windows or Mac computer to a USB flash drive. When downloading movies, you need to make sure that you are not breaking the law on illegal multimedia copying. In most cases, you may need to pay to download the movie.

Table of Contents

Download movies

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Find the movie you want to download. There are many places where you can download movies, from YouTube to file download sites. In most cases, you probably have to pay to download the movie legally.

You need to make sure you are not breaking the law before proceeding to download the movie.
On the torrent site, you can download movies with uTorrent or BitTorrent.

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Make sure the movie you choose is safe. When downloading any content on the Internet, beware of pages with a lot of ads or pop-ups, as well as sites where the address doesn’t have the “HTTPS” protocol before the “www” part.

If possible, you should check out everyone’s comments and reviews about the download file. If other users have reported a virus or other problem, you should avoid using that site.
You also need to make sure that the format of the movie will work on the computer, TV, or other device that you use to watch the movie.

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Download movies. Click the page’s “Download” button, which has the word Download or a downward arrow.

Depending on your browser’s settings, you may need to select a download location (such as your desktop) before the file will start downloading.
You need to make sure that the download button you click is from the page and not the pop-up ad. The download button is usually a link, not a green or flashing button style.

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Wait for the movie to finish downloading. After the movie downloads to your computer, you can start copying the file to USB.

Copy files on Windows

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Plug the flash drive into the USB port on the computer body.

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Copy movie files. Click the movie file, then press Ctrl + X to trim. The movie file will disappear.

If you want to keep the movie file on your computer, press Ctrl + C to copy it.

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Open Start

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. Click the Windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen.

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Open This PC. Type this pc , then click This PC at the top of the Start menu. A new window will open.

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Open the flash drive. In the “Devices and drives” section near the center of the window, double-click the USB’s name,

If you don’t see anything under the “Devices and drives” heading, double-click the heading.

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Paste the movie file in. On the USB’s window, press Ctrl + V . You will see the movie file appear in the drive, but it will take a few minutes to complete the file copying process if the movie is large (for example, over 1 GB).

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Take out the USB. After the movie file is successfully transferred to the flash drive, click the USB icon in the lower-right corner of the screen, then click Eject in the pop-up menu. Then you can unplug the USB.

You may need to click the . sign

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first, you will see the miniature drive icon.

Copy files on Mac

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Plug the flash drive into the USB port on the computer body.

If your computer doesn’t have a USB 3.0 port, you’ll need a Thunderbpt 3 to USB adapter or a USB-C flash drive.

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Open

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Finder. Click the blue human face Finder icon located on the Mac’s Dock.

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Find movie files. Go to the folder where you downloaded the movie.

By default, most browsers will save downloaded files to the Downloads folder, which you can click on the Downloads folder on the left side of the Finder window.

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Copy movie files. Click the movie file to select it, then click Edit at the top of the screen and then click Copy [filename] in the drop-down menu that appears.

For example, if the movie file is titled “The Hobbit (English)”, you would click Copy “The Hobbit (English)” from the Edit drop-down menu.

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Click the USB’s name in the lower-left corner of the Finder window. The flash drive will open in the main Finder window.

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Paste the movie file in. After opening the USB’s window, click Edit again and select Paste Item .

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Click the “Eject” icon

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. The option with an up arrow is to the right of the USB’s name in the Finder. After the movie is transferred to the flash drive, click this option to safely eject the USB.

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Unplug the USB. When prompted, you can unplug the flash drive from the USB port on your computer.

Advice

You need to make sure the source of the movie is reliable before proceeding to download it to your computer.
Downloading with torrents is usually safer than downloading files from a certain website. You can check reviews and comments on each torrent first to ensure that the content is safe; if the torrent has no reviews or comments (or is underrated) then you should not download the movie.
When downloading torrents, you will see unnecessary additional content such as sample images or text files. You can unmark these files when asked to not download them.

Warning

If the system warns that the content you downloaded is a virus, delete the file and run an anti-virus program on your computer right away.

Steps

Download movies

Copy files on Windows

Copy files on Mac

Advice

Warning

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