File Management What is File Management? Saving a File What is a File? Folder? Organizing Files Types of Files Creating a Folder Finding a File Renaming Folders and Files Creating a File External Devices What is File Management? As you use your computer and create files you may need some help in storing and retrieving those files. File management is naming, moving, organizing, and deleting files on your computer so that they are easy for you to access. What is a File? A file is the storage medium for a record or data on your computer. A file can be a word processing document, a digital or scanned photograph, a video clip, an audio or music recording, a PowerPoint slide show or a movie. Illustration from non-computer world: You have a letter in a folder. The letter is the file. The medium or type of file is the piece of paper. What is a Folder? A folder is not a file. A folder is something that stores files. You can have as many folders as you want. You can have folders within folders. Folders can be plain or include icons. They might look like: Types of Files .doc / .docx = Text-based documents (like letters or fliers), might look like: .pdf = Adobe Acrobat portable document file, might look like: .jpg / .tif / .gif / .png = Picture files, might look like: .mp3 / .wav / .aiff = Audio files, might look like: .mov / .mpeg = Movie files, might look like: .xls / .xlsx / .ppt = Files such as spreadsheets or slide presentations, might look like: Finding Your File with Windows Explorer
File Management What is File Management? What is a File? Folder? Types of Files Finding a File Creating a File Saving a File Organizing Files Creating a Folder Renaming Folders and Files External Devices What is File Management? As you use your computer and create files you may need some help in storing and retrieving those files. File management is naming, moving, organizing, and deleting files on your computer so that they are easy for you to access. What is a File? A file is the storage medium for a record or data on your computer. A file can be a word processing document, a digital or scanned photograph, a video clip, an audio or music recording, a PowerPoint slide show or a movie. Illustration from non-computer world: You have a letter in a folder. The letter is the file. The medium or type of file is the piece of paper. What is a Folder? A folder is not a file. A folder is something that stores files. You can have as many folders as you want. You can have folders within folders. Folders can be plain or include icons. They might look like: Types of Files .doc / .docx = Text-based documents (like letters or fliers), might look like: .pdf = Adobe Acrobat portable document file, might look like: .jpg / .tif / .gif / .png = Picture files, might look like: .mp3 / .wav / .aiff = Audio files, might look like: .mov / .mpeg = Movie files, might look like: .xls / .xlsx / .ppt = Files such as spreadsheets or slide presentations, might look like: Finding Your File with Windows Explorer
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