How do i store things to a flash drive

Hi
I'm a bit of a newby when it comes to using a Mac.  I'm finding it difficult to add things to my flash drive, when I insert the drive it doesn't seem to register or am I missing something? My question is how do I put films, text etc to the flash drive.

First how is the flash drive formatted? Open a finder windows and go to the menu bar and select Finder, Perferences and on the general page select to show drives on the desktop and then in the Sidebar page select to show all drives in the Sidebar.
Once that is done the USB flash drive should show up both on the desktop and in the finder sidebar. Once you have that you can copy and paste files to it. That is IF it isn't formatted NTFS. If it is formatted NTFS you will need to format it FAT32 or the Mac extended (Journaled) format with Disk Utility.

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