How to download photos from a memory card

Find out if the card reader in your computerE. the basic equipment personal computers, this device is rare, but in some models of notebooks and laptops they can find it. In addition, if your personal computer has enhanced multimedia keyboard, it is not excluded that it is built in and a card reader.

Purchase this device if it is not in your computer but you expect quite often to read photos from memory cards. It's not big - in the range of three hundred to six hundred rubles. When you purchase please note if the card reader slot for memory cards the format you need. The simplest device of this type is designed to work only with one format, while more complex can have up to four slots for 23 types of memory cards, and in addition also slots to read flash drives and connect a Bluetooth adapter. Connect almost all such devices to the USB port of the computer.

Once you have found into the computer's card slot or bought and installed a card reader, assume the necessary files were not working. Simply insert the memory card into the appropriate slot and access to all its content will be opened using the standard file Manager of your operating system. In Windows, the file Manager use the file Explorer. After inserting the memory card in the slot should start a new window Explorer, in which you'll find a list of the contents of the card. If the settings of your OS do not provide autorun, open Windows Explorer with the keyboard shortcut win + e and browse to the folder containing the photos. Highlight the desired photo, copy (ctrl + c), then go to the destination folder and paste (ctrl + v).

If the computer has no card reader and you don't plan to buy it, look for this device in the computers at work or with friends. There are other ways. For example, if you have a mobile phone or MP3 player that can use the same type of memory card, use these devices as adapter. In addition, shop today are equipped with digital photographic equipment for outdoor shooting, so you can contact them with a request to consider your memory card and save your photos on any media - flash drive or optical disk.