How to Save Photos to USB

This article shows you how to copy photos from your computer to USB.

Table of Contents

On Mac

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Plug the USB into the Mac computer. Your computer usually has rectangular ports, called USB ports, on either side of the laptop body or behind the monitor, on the side of the keyboard, or on the desktop CPU. You need to insert the USB into the appropriate port.

The USB ports have a piece of plastic at the top; you’ll also see the USB connector has a similar piece of plastic. You need to insert the USB into the port of the computer so that the plastic piece of the plug is on the bottom.
If you have trouble inserting the USB into the port, try rotating the USB.
However, some Macs do not have a USB port.

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Open Finder with the blue face icon in the Dock of your Mac, usually at the bottom of the screen.

The USB is visible as soon as it is plugged into the computer, in which case you do not need to open the Finder.

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Click the USB’s name in the lower-left corner of the Finder window, just below the “Devices” heading. This will open the USB’s window where you can save the image.

If the USB shows up as soon as it’s plugged into your Mac, you can skip this step.

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Open the Photos app with a multicolored pinwheel icon on a white background displayed in the Dock.

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Click and drag the photo into the USB window. When you release the mouse button, the image will be “dropped” into the USB window and the process of copying the image from the computer to the USB is also completed.

By default, you cannot move photos from your computer to USB, you can only copy them. If you want to move the photos off the computer, you need to delete them on the computer after copying the photos to the USB.
You can hold down ⇧ Shift while clicking to select multiple photos, or click and drag the mouse pointer over the number of pictures you want to copy.

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Repeat this step for all images to be processed. You can save the number of images according to the memory capacity of the USB.

For example, a USB stick with 64GB of memory can store a number of photos with a capacity of 64GB.

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Click the “Eject” button with the up arrow next to the USB’s name in the Finder window. This is done to ensure that the files are not damaged when you remove the USB.

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Remove USB. Now your photos are saved to the USB. If you want to transfer photos from USB to another computer, simply insert the USB into that computer and drag the pictures from the USB to the computer’s Pictures folder.

On Windows

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Attach the USB to the Windows computer. Your computer usually has rectangular ports, called USB ports, on either side of the laptop body, or behind the monitor, on the side of the keyboard or on the desktop CPU. You need to attach the USB to the appropriate port.

The USB ports have a piece of plastic at the top; you’ll also see the USB connector has a similar piece of plastic. You need to insert the USB into the port of the computer so that the plastic piece of the plug is on the bottom.
If you have trouble inserting the USB into the port, try rotating the USB.

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Open “My PC” with the desktop icon. You can find this application on your desktop or open it from the Start menu by clicking the Start icon in the lower left corner of the screen and then selecting My PC .

On some computers, My PC is also called “My Computer”.
Windows may ask what action you want to perform with your USB. Clicking OK when asked will allow you to select Open fpder to view files to open the USB’s window.

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Double-click the USB’s name under “Devices and drives” in the middle of the window.

If the flash drive shows up as soon as the USB is plugged in to your Mac, you can skip this step.

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Right-click the Pictures folder on the left side of the My PC window.

If the USB’s window displays as soon as the USB is attached to the computer, left-click on Pictures .

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Click Open in new window . This will open a new window with the folder “Pictures” – where the computer’s default pictures are saved.

If the USB shows up as soon as it’s plugged into your Mac, you can skip this step.

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When you release the mouse button, the image will be “dropped” into the USB window and the process of copying the image from the computer to the USB is also completed.

By default, you cannot move photos from your computer to USB, you can only copy them. If you want to move the photos off the computer, you need to delete them on the computer after copying the photos to the USB.
You can hold down ⇧ Shift while clicking to select multiple photos, or click and drag the mouse pointer over the number of pictures you want to copy.

Advice

This works on all drives, from flash drives, hard drives, to MicroSD cards.
If you’re using a Chromebook, you still plug the USB into your computer as usual, then click the square icon flanked by three dots at the bottom of the screen to open the Files window. Click the toolbar in the lower-left corner of the Files window, select the name of the flash drive, and add an image. ^{[1] X Research Source}

Warning

Improperly ejecting the USB before removing it from the computer may result in damage or loss of files.

Steps

On Mac

On Windows

Advice

Warning

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