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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1940620" data-attributes="member: 396914">1. I would suggest you give the thumb drive distinctive names to differentiate them. Something like &quot;Thumb pictures&quot; or &quot;Stick pictures&quot; so you can be sure when you select them. If you do that, then when the drive(s) mount, they should appear in the sidebar with those unique names and you can be sure to select them and not something on the internal drive. I would also suggest that instead of putting the files she wants to print in a folder on the thumb drive named &quot;Pictures&quot; make the folder on the thumb drive something like &quot;ToBePrinted.&quot; That way, there is less chance of mistake. 2. Like Ashwin above, to me the images are slightly confusing. Is the machine named &quot;M2,&quot; or your acount? I ask because the picture has &quot;M2&quot; in the top bar, but it's missing in the one with Pictures in the top bar. 3. macOS adds some default folders to Finder, one of which is helpfully named &quot;Pictures.&quot; That is what is in the side bar of both images. Unfortunately, the sidebar ALWAYS shows some folders that are on the internal drive, like the Home folder and in your case &quot;Pictures.&quot; But the images she printed from the thumb drive may or may not have been in the &quot;Pictures&quot; folder in the sidebar. I take it that you started deleting &quot;Pictures&quot; and saw images disappearing from your internal drive, which tells me you selected &quot;Pictures&quot; in the sidebar and went to the Pictures folder there instead of the thumb drive. So, use creative naming for these kinds of things to make it easier to determine exactly where you are before starting any delete process.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1940620, member: 396914"] 1. I would suggest you give the thumb drive distinctive names to differentiate them. Something like "Thumb pictures" or "Stick pictures" so you can be sure when you select them. If you do that, then when the drive(s) mount, they should appear in the sidebar with those unique names and you can be sure to select them and not something on the internal drive. I would also suggest that instead of putting the files she wants to print in a folder on the thumb drive named "Pictures" make the folder on the thumb drive something like "ToBePrinted." That way, there is less chance of mistake. 2. Like Ashwin above, to me the images are slightly confusing. Is the machine named "M2," or your acount? I ask because the picture has "M2" in the top bar, but it's missing in the one with Pictures in the top bar. 3. macOS adds some default folders to Finder, one of which is helpfully named "Pictures." That is what is in the side bar of both images. Unfortunately, the sidebar ALWAYS shows some folders that are on the internal drive, like the Home folder and in your case "Pictures." But the images she printed from the thumb drive may or may not have been in the "Pictures" folder in the sidebar. I take it that you started deleting "Pictures" and saw images disappearing from your internal drive, which tells me you selected "Pictures" in the sidebar and went to the Pictures folder there instead of the thumb drive. So, use creative naming for these kinds of things to make it easier to determine exactly where you are before starting any delete process. [/QUOTE]

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