Trying to DL pics fr a CD to Hard drive...Drive doesn't seem to recognize CD

Trying to DL pics fr a CD to Hard drive...Drive doesnt seem to recognize CD

How is the flash drive formatted? Open Disk Utility (Applications>Utilities) and see how it's formatted - that might be the problem.
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Save it on the internal HD then copy it from this safe location to the external device.
iWork applications can't apply their save process on devices which aren't formatted as HFS+.
But it may also be that for some reason, an external device formatted as HFS+ is set to Read Only.
If it's this case, you will have to change de setting before moving the file on it.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 20 mai 2011 11:01:05
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Clicked on change.
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