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Need for Storing Work on a Computer
When your teacher teaches you something, you keep it in your
brain and recall it when required, but sometimes you might forget.
If you note it down in your notebook, you can revise it later, again
and again. So whatever you have learnt remains forever.
In the same way, if the power goes off while you are working and
you have not saved your work, you might lose it. When you turn
the computer back on, you will not be able to find your work.
But if you save it on any of the storage devices, you can open it
again later. Storing work on a computer or any storage device is
called saving.
Suppose you are drawing a ‘Rainy day’ in Paint. You
have finished half of it and your computer period is
over. What will you do? You will save it and continue
the rest of it in the next period.
Boost Bits
Many years ago, people used a storage device called
Floppy Disk. It is not used nowadays. The save icon you see
in almost all software is actually an image of a floppy disk.
WHAT IS A FILE?
When you write or draw in a notebook or drawing
book, those books are similar to files.
When you work on a computer in any software and
save it, it gets saved in the form of a file on the hard
disk. A file in a computer is a piece of information
Paint File
stored on a storage device.
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