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brenowden Author

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Photos not transferering to flash drive

I am transferring photos to a formatted FAT32 flash drive. 975 of the 1007 photos transferred with no issued. The remaining, will not transfer. It is only 8.9 mb of size, similar size to other photos I have transferred. Used with a camera that others photos had transferred. I cant find a rhyme or reason for this. Anyone have any ideas as to what the problem is, or how to fix it. The flash drive still has 7.74 GB of space left.

And also, is there a way to keep the order the photos appear in mac's photos app the same on the flash drive that I dont know about? I see you can arrange the order by date created, last opened, etc., but nothing to keep it in same order as it is in the photo app.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Apr 7, 2022 11:59 AM

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TonyCollinet

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Posted on Apr 7, 2022 2:00 PM

As a test, try exporting first to a folder on the system drive (say a temp folder on your desktop). Then copy from there to the USB stick.

There has been a bug around regarding exporting directly to windows formatted external drives. Not sure what version of MacOS it relates to.

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