<p>if you save something onto the flash drive, does it disappear completely from the original computer?</p>
<p>or is a flash drive just for carrying around stuff…just a temporary place to store files?</p>
<p>thank you…from an inexperienced tech savvy freshie :(</p>
<p>No, putting a file to a USB drive of any sort should only copy the file to the drive, not move it. After that it’s up to you how long you want to keep files on there… I mean I don’t really understand what you’re asking in the 2nd question because USB drives do not automatically delete things from themselves after a certain amount of time or something.</p>
<p>And if you have one of the USB external harddrives, you wouldn’t want to carry it around anyway because they are heavy. Well up to 160GB isn’t, but usually drives larger need to be plugged in to the outlet rather than get power just from the computer.</p>
<p>If you have an iPod, you can use it to back-up files using drag and drop. :)</p>
<p>so if you just drag and drop it, then if you want to delete it later from the flash drive, then it won’t delete the actual file (from the other computer)??</p>
<p>You’re supposed to copy/paste (by right-clicking), not just drag and drop (that’ll remove it from the computer and put it on the flash drive).</p>
<p>thats not true. i always drag and drop my files in, it just copies.</p>
<p>^^^^i agree. drag n drop is a short cut to copy & paste.</p>
<p>^it all depends on computer preferences. you can change the options for what drag-and-drop does.</p>
<p>Ah, I see. I’ve never seen dragging-and-dropping as copying.</p>
<p>drag-and-drop is copying for me too, but it does depend on the preferences. To be safe I just do keyboard commands…</p>