USB help please

[Mexy02]

Can someone help me please . My son has a Lenovo laptop and I’ve just got him a dell chromebook for uni . He will need to transfer his notes ( word etc ) etc over so I’m thinking a usb stick would be the easiest way ? Can anyone point me on Amazon what to buy ? There’s so many I don’t want to buy the wrong thing and I’m not technical at all. Thank you in advance for helping a poor mum out

[olgaandcoda]

I’ve got Kingston make, which do the job, various sizes, I have the 16GB for my music in the car. Holds 160 albums as an example. Amazon, cheapest.

[shack69]

sandisk are good and this one has dual USB plug so could be useful depending on the connector on the chromebook amazon/dp/B01M127X8F

But also consider just pushing the files up onto something like dropbox (2gb free) as he should be able to access them from any location and can't loose it.

[Mexy02]

Thank you both , I’d not considered Dropbox . It has a micro ds card slot, 2 usb ( normal ) slots and a hdmi slot. I’ll show him both and mention Dropbox .

[YorkshireT]

Easy way with a chromebook is potentially Google Drive if you don't want to buy a USB.

[Mexy02]

Originally Posted by YorkshireT

Easy way with a chromebook is potentially Google Drive if you don't want to buy a USB.

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So if he had the word app on the chromebook and saved it to google drive , would he log in on his laptop to retrieve the documents and download onto the laptop ?

Sorry for sounding thick , You would think these days kids would know more than me !

[Trouble3]

For anything Microsoft generated, the easiest thing to use is One Drive IMO.

I save all my Word/Excel stuff straight to my One Drive account, that I can access from anywhere.

Another quick way is to do a draft email, upload the files and leave it as a draft... open the draft email on the new laptop and download the files.

[cartoonp]

Another way is if you a bt customer the. Use but cloud ⛅️ Just upload flies they always be there and just download on your new pc