How to download photos from a flash drive

Plug the thumbdrive in the USB port, if the photos are stored on a USB flash drive. This device in a plastic housing, a length of approximately five centimeters and a thickness of half a centimeter, with a closed cap plug for connection. This is the most common version, but there are many stylized versions, are decorated in a variety of ways. The only common feature - the flash drives have the USB connector.

Once the flash drive is connected to your computer, the operating system will detect new device and will read the directory of the files on the. Depending on the OS installations immediately after that, a window may open file Manager, which would reflect the contents of the flash drive. If this does not happen, start the file Manager of your operating system yourself. In Windows you can double-click on the icon "My computer" on the desktop or use the keyboard shortcut Win + E. In Explorer open the root folder of the connected flash drive, select the photo files you want to copy and press Ctrl + C to put them on the list to the clipboard. Then expand the folder on the hard disk of the computer to which it is necessary to place these files and click Ctrl + V. you Can not use the clipboard, just drag and drop the selected pictures to the desired folder or to the desktop.

If photos are not stored on the USB drive and on a flat flash card to read-need an additional device - the reader. It is seldom installed in the housings of personal computers, basic configuration, and laptops have found a little more often. If your computer has no card reader, you will have to purchase it separately. In this case, the device will have a cable to connect to USB rashema computer. You first need to connect your device, and then insert the flash card. The procedure of copying pictures in this case will not be different from those described in the previous step.