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Your Aim
to learn about:
Files and Folders File Explorer
Organising Files and Folders Creating a New File or Folder
Opening Files or Folders Selecting Files or Folders
Copying/Moving Files or Folders Renaming a File or Folder
Deleting a File or Folder Restoring a Deleted File or Folder
All the data stored on your computer’s hard disk consists of files and folders.
Basically, files are used to store data and folders are used to store and organise
files and other folders called sub folders.
FILES AND FOLDERS
A file is a document that you may find on someone’s desk or in a filing cabinet.
It is an item that contains a collection of related information. Similarly, a file in a
computer can be a text document, spreadsheet, picture, music or even movie.
A file in a computer system is represented by an icon. Here are some common file
icons according to the file type.
Document file Spreadsheet file Image file Video file Music file
A folder is like a file cabinet in which you can store your files. In other
words, a folder is a collection of files.
You can see a folder icon on the screen as shown in the figure. Folders
do not only store files but also other folders. A folder within a folder is Folder
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