how do I transfer jpg to flash drive mac

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how do I transfer jpg to flash drive mac

I have been working at this for a long time.

.jpeg files are NOT in iphoto, I put copied them from "documents" to a folder on desktop. Once I open that folder, for some reason I get a bar on top of the finder screen that says TRASH, and on the right end of the bar: EMPTY TRASH. Other folders on the desktop don't have it. When I try to drag folder to flash drive, I see the "prohibited" sign. So now I "ordered" my pics, and cleared up my desk, but still cannot save them out of mac.

I want to back up ASAP, and either send folders there, or to dropbox. Can't figure out how to do either.

PLEASE help anyone?

PS: I was able to transfer 4 photos by dragging individually, but the folder in question has over 9,000 pics, no way I am doing that by hand. Mac has proven so intuitive before, come on, what am I missing here?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jul 6, 2012 10:14 PM

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Jul 6, 2012 10:20 PM in response to qwertyapple

Have you formatted your USB flash drive with Disk Utility so that it's Mac compatible or do you want to share the drive with Windows users?

Are you creating the folder on the Desktop or in some other handy location. I've no idea why you'd show 'empty trash' unless, of course, the photos were in the Trash.

Call back with more info...

Clinton

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Jul 7, 2012 9:23 AM in response to clintonfrombirmingham

Thanks for answering my Q!

No need to format USB drive, as it has already been working with mac. I actually could drag pics individually w/ no problem (I got 4 in there just to see if it was possible), but I had 9000. Yes, space in drive=1.9 GB, size of folder=3.19GB (and BTW, it now has 1/2 the pics, some may have been copies)

I used finder to locate all pics (.jpg) that were sitting around and intended to save them in memory stick and free macpro. Some of the pics were on desktop, AND iphoto, AND documents. Unnecessary space eaten up by them.

I "selected all", and tried to drag them to the memory stick, as I've done in the past with docs, in groups or individually. They would not move. I tried with individual pics, no problem. In edit tab it said something about "copy 10 items" but I had 9000 -mac has to do better than that!

So, I created a blank folder on the desktop, and placed it on the left bar, for easy drag.

All good till then. Highlighted all pics and tried to drag (I believe finder was getting this list from "documents", not desktop). It did not work at first, but it may have taken a long time for mac to actually handle the job. Finally the colorful wheel told me mac was doing something, and voila! all pics were there. I open the folder, it looks like all the pics I had.

Now I try to drag folder to memory stick. I get the circle with bar across (forbidden) sign. Surprised, I go back to folder, this time I notice the location, and it is "trash, folder". Period.

Can't get screen shot uploaded here for you, no paint program, sorry.

Actual size, 3.19GB (that's why I want to get that out of laptop) for 4,990 items.

And yes, memory stick only has about 2 GB, but I'd would hope it would take as much as possible, and then close. Not?

I am going crazy with this, because I want to free up my mac without loosing valuable pictures, but all I seem to be doing is creating duplicates with each action I take :-P Case in point, on top of many of the pics being on Iphoto, someone had convinced me a while ago that Picasa was great because it sincronized online (I thought online album, NOT facebook, blogs, etc, which I don't want my stuff on!). Anyway, when I opened to just see if I could get an image of the screenshot there, it ALSO copied absolutely every image from the computer. :-P I need to get these pics outta here before my mac gives up!

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