Window 10

[cider_eater]

Could some one let me have advice please
on Windows 10 Been trying to save documents on to USB instead of on computer. W10 is!!! .

 

[Peter]

I am assuming you have a USB key stuck in? Instead of clicking save, click " save as" then change its destination or just removing the USB stick should change too.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Put the USB drive in the slot.

Find the file you want to save to the USB. Right click it. From the drop down list, hover the cursor over 'send to'- the menu that pops up should show the USB drive as drive F or similar.

 

[Cowabunga]

Or you can find the file and just drag and drop it onto the USB icon.

 

[Old Boar]

If it is a new doc, when you go to Save As, you can choose where to save it (click the down arrow at the top of the Save As for all possible places).
File explorer (a yellow folder icon at the bottom of my screen, that is the default) if you forgot where you put it!

 

[Cowabunga]

I'd 'save as' into the Documents folder, or a specific file within that on the computer first, then save at regular intervals as the file progresses. Then after closing the file, 'copy to' the USB drive, which will be shown as a drive at the top of the tree, or drag and drop from the initial location to the USB, choosing to either copy or move. I'd copy and leave an original file in its folder within Documents.

 

[cider_eater]

Thanks :you guys :

 

[Cowabunga]

Many people don't understand the filing system. Forgive me if anyone reading knows all of this but a surprising number of people have never had it explained to them and can't understand how their computers should and can be organised.

I just tell them to think of a physical row of filing cabinets in a room. They may have one for important documents, one for music, one for photos, one for downloads. Inside those cabinets they have folders for sub categories, such as in the Documents folder they may have sub folders for invoices, insurance documents, field records, and so on, each containing a number of individual files/documents.

When you create or have downloaded a file [downloads go initially into the 'Downloads' cabinet or large file, whatever you want to call a top of the tree file, before being relocated to somewhere more appropriate if so required] you 'save as' or 'Move' the file to the appropriate folder where it is easy to find and appropriate to store. Occasionally you may wish to create a new folder within one of the cabinets for a new category of document or a new subject [a folder within a larger folder if you prefer to think that way]

You can create folders within folders and the bottom of the tree will be where most of your files are stored.
You can create a folder on the desktop if you like or you can even store individul files/documents there, although best to group them inside folders to avoid clutter. It's like your desk, you need to clear the paperwork files into some kind of folders to avoid clutter and make things easy to find and store for the short or longer term.

The same principles apply whether you have a Windows or Mac system and it has not fundamentally changed since Windows 3.1 or earlier.

A USB drive, SD card or external hard drive all show up as extra drives and should all have a file structure exactly like the main hard drive, with folders and files within. If the files are compatible and not protected in some way and drives have enough room, files and/or folders can be copied or moved between all drives and as in the OP, can be saved to any drive that has room on it.