trouble downloading pics from USB flash memory

[oneidapj]

With much debating about external hardrives, etc., my wife got a smoking deal on an HP Pavilion, Windows 7 Home, 1TB hard drive,, just for all my pics. And to free up some space on our everyday, on enternet computer.

So we got a couple USB flash, a Duracell 8 GB and a Lexar 8 GB. Loaded a lot of my pics on them, about 12 GB total, and downloaded them on the new computer. Worked great but all the files were all mixed up. It would have taken days to sort it all out the way I had it. I think I picked the wrong choice when it asked me what order to load the files, I can't quite remember the choices. What I decided to do is just send all the pics to recycle and just reload the pics, just try again. Well, when I try to download them again, it won't let me.

This is what happens- insert the flash thingy into the USB and the autoplay window pops up. I can veiw the images that are still there in both of them. But when I click on download through windows or download images using Canon ZoomBrowser a window pops up that says "no images to download to memory card".?.? And that's it, can't do anything else.

I called HP help. They say everything is good. For $100 or whatever they will figure it out. Yeah, ok, whatever. He was saying propbably the USB flash thing is not working right. I find it hard to believe both of them are screwed up. So I'm thinking it's something not set right on the computer or something. I even deleted all the Canon stuff off the computer and reloaded that.. Didn't help.

My second question is-- What are tags? The first time I downloaded the pics, some of the options for downloading had to do with the order of tags. That might be part of my problem why all the files where mixed up. I made the wrong choice.

Any help with my problem will be very much appreciated. My only other option is take computer and USB flashes back the service shop and pay them to fix me up.

[TheDarkReaver]

I'm slightly confused at what you have done. Why didn't you just copy the folders the pictures were in, paste them into the drive then copy them to the new computer? It should be a simple drag and drop operation, like how you would move a file from one folder to another.

If you go to my computer and open the drive in explorer are the pictures there? If they are just copy and paste them onto the new computer.

Did you say at some point you send them to the recycling bin?

Tags are basically labels you stick on files to help organise and find them more easily, like you would add tags to images on flickr.

[Photologyst]

If your flash drive was still in the computer and you sent those photos to recycle, you need to take them out of there.

You should be able to highlight all the pixs and simply drag the photos to a folder on your computer.

[oneidapj]

Thank you very much TheDarkReaver and Photologyst. Simply drag and drop, worked like a charm. I didn't realize I could do that off the flash drive. It's the first time I ever used the thing. Thank you.
I just open a flickr last night and I saw the tag there also. Thanks

[Photologyst]

Glad to help.

[DravensHalo]

Originally Posted by TheDarkReaver

I'm slightly confused at what you have done. Why didn't you just copy the folders the pictures were in, paste them into the drive then copy them to the new computer? It should be a simple drag and drop operation, like how you would move a file from one folder to another.

If you go to my computer and open the drive in explorer are the pictures there? If they are just copy and paste them onto the new computer.

Did you say at some point you send them to the recycling bin?

Tags are basically labels you stick on files to help organise and find them more easily, like you would add tags to images on flickr.

hahaha I was going to say the same thing... but okay i am a bit ont he blunt side.

- Why download - when you can copy and past them where you want the to go...

[TheDarkReaver]

It's these silly features program companies like to add to flash drives and what not in order to make it simpler for the casual user. Of course it just makes it more complicated if anything goes wrong.

Originally Posted by oneidapj

Thank you very much TheDarkReaver and Photologyst. Simply drag and drop, worked like a charm. I didn't realize I could do that off the flash drive. It's the first time I ever used the thing. Thank you.
I just open a flickr last night and I saw the tag there also. Thanks

No problem. Yeah, a flash drive is really just an updated floppy disk. It's the simple removable storage device of the day.

Stuff like EXIF data is also an example of a tag, or artist information and track numbers on audio files.