How to transfer to computer from flash drive?

I've installed the flash drive and it appears on Finder. I've been told that just need to select all and copy and paste. But I have no idea how to do that.Sorry for the novice question.

It sounds like your flash drive is formatted as NTFS? (A Mac can not write to these).
Plug it back in, highlight its desktop icon and press ⌘I.
Then look where the resulting window says Format.
Windows usually uses either FAT32, exFAT or NTFS. A Mac can only natively read and write the FAT variants.
If that is the case copy everything from the drive to a temporary location on your Mac and reformat the flash drive, (if you have any individual files over 4GB in size you'll need exFAT). Once formatted check with a PC that it's all good before deleting your temporary files.

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1) assuming the flash drive is seen when opening "my computer" or "computer" double click on the flash drive - it should open another window showing what, if anything is on the flash drive. Leaving that window open, now find the pictures you wish to copy or move and highlight them by clicking each one or a group (select more than one by holding the control key down while clicking in the photos) Now right click on one of the selected photos and then pick "copy" or and then right click on the open flash drive windows, right click "paste"
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