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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 you may forget it sometimes.
But 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, when you work on your computer and if the
electricity goes off, you will lose all your work. And when you restart
your computer, you will not be able to open the same work again.
But if you save it on any of the storage devices, you can open
your work again. Storing work on a computer on any storage
device is called saving.
Suppose you are drawing a ‘Rainy scene’ in Paint. You
have finished half of it and your computer period is over.
You want to continue to work on it in the next period.
What will you do? You will save it.
Info Byte
Many years ago, people used a storage device called Floppy
Disk. It is not used nowadays. The save icon you see in
almost all the software is actually an image of a floppy disk.
i + WHAT IS A FILE?
When you write something in a notebook or draw
something in your drawing book, your notebook and
drawing book act like 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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