Can someone help me figure out how to copy pictures?

[BKViper]

I read the FAQ here and it has all the steps, but it either leaves out a critical piece, or I am missing something, or my setup isn't working.

I took a picture in Photomode.
I did the transfer to XMB thing.
I quit the game and on the XMB I went to "Photo".
At the end of that list there was a folder called "Dec 2010" and inside it was my picture.
I hit triangle on it, choose copy (also tried copy mutliple) and it says, "Connect storage device at the save destination."

Now I had already plugged my USB thumb drive into the port on the front of the PS3. When I did that nothing of note happened except some momentary flashing lights on my thumb drive (which I assumed was it talking to the PS3).

But from there I have no idea how to see if it is connected. I have no idea how to tell it that the drive is where I want to copy the pictures to. I am lost. I have never used a usb stick with the PS3 before, so this is all new territory, so please if you do this regularly and can provide some guidance, don't leave out any small details that you think "Well, everyone knows this part" because I probably don't!
With any luck, this will be easier and better quality than taking a picture of my TV with my camera phone and then text messaging it to my email account.

Thanks all.

 

[ikarys]

Is the stick formatted to FAT 32?

 

[BKViper]

exFAT

 

[ikarys]

I don't even know what that is

I mainly use macs, but I formatted to fat32 for the ps3 to work properly.

 

[BKViper]

Thank you very much, that was the problem!
I forget just how the PS3 actually is at this point.

FYI:
The original FAT format only supported files up to 2GB in size, so they created FAT32.
The FAT32 format only supported files up to 4GB in size, so they created exFAT (extended FAT).
The exFAT format supports files up to 512 TB (yes, Terabytes!) in size.

 

[Jay.]

Might seem a daft question, but have you created the PS3 folders needed on your stick

 

[BKViper]

All I had to do was format in FAT32.
Then the PS3 recognized it and copied the picture to it.
I put it in my PC and it had created a folder called "PICTURE" and my file was in there.

 

[BKViper]

For the moderators: You might want to add a note in the FAQ thread that the USB stick needs to be formatted in FAT32, since I know most of the newer sticks are exFAT now.