Can my iMAC use a thumb drive?

I have a thumb drive with photos downloaded from a PC. Can I just insert that thumbdrive into a MAC USB port and read it? (I've tryed o-- doesn't work). What course of action should I take to move those PC-based photos to the iMAC environment?

A Mac can read PC formatted volumes. What happened, exactly, when you plugged in the USB drive?
Perhaps the photos were not exported in a format the Mac can read. Use whatever program the PC uses to read photographs and export them as jpeg or other format.

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HT4527 I transfered my Itunes information using a thumb drive to my new computer and downloaded the newest version of itunes to my new laptop. My songs are all there on the new computer but it won't recognize my ipod and sync.

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Thanks for visiting Apple Support Communities.
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Use of thumb drive screws up iPhoto

What has trying to use a thumb drive done to my iPhoto files? A couple years ago, I transferred many photos to a thumb drive as an iPhoto file. I believe there was a trick to getting the iPhoto software over to the thumb drive, but I've no recollection how I did it. Anyway, there was no problem with iPhoto on the thumb drive or on my MacBook-- both showed the pix they should have. The other day, I tried to move a few more photos to the thumb drive, but they didn't fall into iPhoto. I guess that would require some extra software. The annoyance is that when I eject the thumb drive and summon iPhoto, I don't see what should be on my computer but still see the iPhoto display from the thumb drive -- apparently it's been retained on my hard drive or in memory. I've tried restarting the computer, after which the best I can get is an iPhoto screen with no photos at all in it. There are three or four photo libraries on the hard drive, but none containing all my current pix. I have found some of those photos on the hard drive by using Spotlight to list items with .jpg suffixes. But they seem to be scattered, and I doubt that all the old pix are there.
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Thanks for your prompt response to my posting. In response to your questions and comments:
1. The thumb drive's format appears to be "MS-DOS File System (FAT32)"
2. "fall into" refers to the fact that the pix recently transferred to the thumb drive didn't go directly into the "iPhoto Library" folder already on the drive and listing material put on the drive a year or so ago but are listed as individual jpeg files. I've dragged these individual pix into the iPhoto Library. But I hesitate to boot from the thumb drive because of the mess it led to the other day.
3. When I enter /volumes in the Finder/Go/Go to Folder wndow, The volumes directory that appears lists aliases for my computer's hard drive and the thumb drive, which is plugged in at the moment. Entering volumes in Spotlight produces only documents that mention the word "volumes."

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She has a Time Capsule where the Wi-fi base station quit working, but the hard drive may be OK.
She bought an Airport Express to use as a wi-fi router.
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Roberto

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The Factory Reset Gen1-4.
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