How to get photos off a USB stick

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 03 April 2009 16:19, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > A friend has taken some photos of some stuff I want to sell, and is going
> > to bring them back on a USB stick (he's a windows user).
> >
> > Not wishing to look a complete idiot, possibly discrediting Linux at the
> > same time, how do I get the photos off the USB stick, and onto the
> > machine. I've never used a USB stick before.
>
> Plug it in. On my Ubuntu system it pops up with a dialog box asking if
> you want to manage them with F-spot, open a folder, etc...
>
> What I normally do is tell it to just open the folder, then navigate the
> folders like any other external drive and select all the images I want,
> copy (like in edit->copy), then go to a folder on my hard disk where I
> want to store them and paste. Copies right off the USB drive.
>
> When done, right click the USB volume on the desktop and unmount (or
> eject, if the option's there) the volume and you can unplug it.
>
> Then you can use whatever editing software or image management software
> you want to use.

Thanks Bart, and you other guys. That sounds dead easy, and hopefully I won't 
let Ubuntu, and Linux down when he returns with the stick.

Next thing, to find out how to post the photos, along with my sales on the 
sell for free website, but hopefully that will be easy.

I have both Ubuntu, and Kubuntu Intrepid 8.10, along with earlier Kubuntu 
versions, and other distros, all Linux, on this machine, so hopefully there 
will be no problems.

Thanks again for all the replies.

Nigel.