File Management 3

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Create a New Folder

Click on the drive where you want to create the folder. Use one of the following methods to create the folder.

Method 1: Right-click in white space and select the option New, Folder and then give it a name.

Method 2: Click on the menu word File, New, Folder

Copy Folder or File

There are multiple methods to copy files, folders and in fact, most information:

Method 1: Right-click on the object. Select Copy.

Method 2: Left-click the object one time. From the menu toolbar, click on Edit. Select "Copy."

Method 3: Left-click the object one time. On your keyboard, use the CTRL and C keys together.

Finish the copy procedure:

Once you have copied information, it is temporarily placed, as a copy on the clipboard. You may now navigate to the final destination in order to paste the object.

Paste Folder or File

(complete copy & paste process)

Method 1: Right click into the white space. Select (left-click) "Paste."

Method 2: Left-click into the white space of where you want to paste the object. From the menu bar, click on Edit, and then click on Paste.

Method 3: Left-click into the white space of where you want to paste the object. On your keyboard, use the CTRL and V keys together.

Method 4: Right-click, drag and drop the object onto the final destination. Please note that this only works if you can "see" both the current location and the final destination of the file.

Navigation in the Computer & File Naming Conventions

Navigation throughout your files and folders is critical. Once you understand where you are, where you want to go and how to get there, everything else is a snap! Naming conventions are also important. Once you understand how a computer names folders, you can easily find locations of files and folders.

Click on the image on the right to open the sample window. Compare the sample window to the following information:

• Notice the way the window is set up. You can open this window through the icon "My Computer" or Windows Explorer. For this demonstrations, I have clicked on the "Folders" option to view the folders at the same time.
• On the left side, I see that I have clicked onto my "G" drive. The contents of this drive are on the right.
• Since I am clicked into the "G" drive, my written notation of this is "G:\" In this case, I have several objects off of the "G" drive. Notice that I have two folders: "Assignment 2 Files" and "Other Stuff." These would be written as
  • G:\Assignment 2 Files\
  • G:\Other Stuff\
• Notice that what is represented visually as a folder has a \ (slash) in front and behind it in the written version. For the purposes of our exercise, we will not be using anything in the "Other stuff" area, so from here on we will ignore it.
• Notice that we can also name the documents on this drive as well. We have two documents: assignment 1 and assignment 2. They would be noted as such:
  • G:\assignment_1.doc
  • G:\assignment_2.doc
• Notice that they do not have a slash \ behind them. This is because they are not folders.

The plus signs next to each folder indicate that there are folders embedded in this one. To view them, click once on the plus sign to open it. Click once again to close it. The folder may or may not contain files.

If I click one time on the left, on the folder "Assignment 2 Files" the contents appear on the right.

The path for each of these folders would be:

G:\Assignment 2 Files\my projects\

G:\Assignment 2 Files\other stuff\

G:\Assignment 2 Files\pictures\

G:\Assignment 2 Files\travel numbers.doc

Again, note that the "travel numbers.doc is the only one that is NOT a folder, and is not followed by a \ (slash). All others are folders

Notice:

On the left side, we are clicked into "Assignment 2 Files" - note the highlights as well as the minus (-) sign.

The file "travel numbers.doc" is not a folder, therefore it is not listed on the left side, where we will only see folders.

If we dig even deeper, within the "my projects" folder, we find that we have

G:\Assignment 2 Files\my projects\junk\

G:\Assignment 2 Files\my projects\lesson plans\

G:\Assignment 2 Files\my projects\personal projects\

and so on....

Another way to view the structure of this disk is to look at it as an upside down tree.

Now, let's move onto the answer to the Brains Baseline Assessment