How do i transfer files from my desktop to a thumb drive

How do I transfer some files from my iMAC desktop to a thumb drive?

If you mean you've already tried and you get a message that you don't have access, then the drive is likely pre-formatted as NTFS. You'll have to use Disk Utility to erase the drive and reformat it in a file system you can read/write on both the Mac and PC. That would be either FAT32 (called MS-DOS as the choice), or exFAT. If you only need the drive for Macs, then use Mac OS Extended.

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