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“Downloading “ is copying files over a network. Specifically, it's recieving files

from a computer on a network, a computer that is ‘elsewhere’. Copying, on the
other hand is when files are, well, copied within the same computer system, even

if the disks are external to the computer system in question, as long as those disks
are not attached via some sort of network connection.

Moving, of course, is copying but where the files at the original site (disk or drive)
are deleted once the files being copied are finished being copied.

Uploading is obviously the inverse of downloading. The language is essentially the

same, except that the operative verb is that the file or files are being sent, rather
than being recieved. And as before, transmission is being done over a network.

Many end users get these terms mixed up, saying “downloading” when they
mean copying (locally), or confuse downloading with uploading, or think that all

four terms (download, upload, copy, and move) are all the same things, which
they definitely are not the same.

Heck, end users call computers all sorts of strange things:

CPU

Hard drive

Modem

PC -- for a laptop

Laptop when they mean PC

Other misunderstood words:

Gigaram (gigs of RAM)

Calling all software from Microsoft “My Microsoft “, as in “Help me, my Microsoft

isn't working”

Saying that the Internet doesn't work, when they mean that their network
connection to the internet isn't working.