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[Audrey]

Hi Guys time to pick your geek brain again..
It is me again.....learning learning. I have another gadget to occupy my brain space... as if OS 7 and Ffox weren't enough lol

I have thousands of pictures on many flash drives so I decided it is time I put them all in one place .I bought an external hard drive it is about the size of a deck of cards it is neat....
none of my pics are on my laptop.
They are all on my flash drives...
Here comes the ?????? Please Do I have to download them to my baby Dell and then copy them to my portable drive.. I just got the drive today...

tTanks soo much... you guys have taught me so much over the years . Please I need help again..
Thank you.......
Here is what it looks like ..
http://www.seagate.c...nal-hard-drive/
I hope I made a good choice.
I will await your replies before I tempt to use it.. If you want me to send a pics of my new toy will do so.
Thanks eh....
cheers & hugs

[JohnT]

The photo shows three hard drives so I don't know which you got but that doesn't really matter. First setup the external hard drive by plugging it into the main PC usb drive. Take note of what drive it is called such as D or E drive.

Than plug in the flash drive to a separate USB drive and in windows 7 a plugnplay menu should popup and you select (left click) open folder to view files.

your files on the flash drive will open than select the folder that you have the photos in right click on it and you will see a another menu, go down to send to and click to send it to your external hard drive if it is D or E, that should start sending the photos directly to the external drive. Do that with each flash until you have all the photos loaded on the external drive.
The photos to move was the one I right clicked to send to the external hard drive which on my machine was L. Once they are moved they still remain on the flash drive until you delete that folder. I went back to the flash drive that is still connected and right clicked on folder and deleted. That is pretty much it.

[Berton]

The only issue with Notebooks is they seldom have enough USB ports. My MacBook Pro has only 2 USB ports which is why I use a Bluetooth Wireless Mouse, have a new HP Notebook ordered that also has the Bluetooth feature.

Whenever possible I plug in an External drive and copy from Thumb/Flash drives directly to the HDD. The transfers tend to take longer than copying to or from the HDD but then I don't have to back to the HDD and delete what was copied.

[Audrey]

Gee guys thanks soooooouse ooo much I knew you would be there for me...John the illustrations are great.

Yes, my laptop 7 has 2 USB's I also have a wireless mouse... I appreciate your help.. Big hugs .....
BTW!Berton you were the one who taught me how to use a flash drive a few years back...a lesson well learnt.
Have a great week-end..
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[Berton]

You're welcome, Audrey, glad to help.

[Lewis]

Berton I have 3 USB's and 1 HDMI on my hp G61 notebook, and I am very glad about that.

[JohnT]

Hey Lewis where you been? Haven't seen you around for awhile.

[Lewis]

Hey John I have been looking in here though, I was real hurt and sad about Tonto.

[JohnT]

Yeah he was a super good guy, I hope he is singing with the angels. Glad your around, and hope the band is getting some gigs.

[Lewis]

Yeah John it was good to have known him.