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Organisation of Folders 6
Learning Outcomes
File/Folder Creating a New Folder
Creating a New File Deleting a File/Folder
Saving a File Opening A File/Folder
You learnt about the files in the previous class. Now, learn more about files and also about
folders. All the data stored on your computer’s hard disk consists of files and folders.
i + FILE/FOLDER
A file is a document that contains a collection of related information. Basically, it is used
to store data. A file on a computer can be a text document, spreadsheet, picture, music,
or even a movie. It is represented by an icon. By looking at a file’s icon, you can tell at a
glance what kind of file it is. Here are some common file icons.
Document file Spreadsheet file Image file Music file Video file
A Folder is like a file cabinet in which you can keep your files. There are
thousands of files on your computer. Instead of storing every file on your
computer’s hard disk, you can arrange them into folders. You can see a folder
icon on the screen as shown in the figure.
Folders are used to store and organise files and other subfolders. A folder Folder
within a folder is called a subfolder.
i + CREATING A NEW FOLDER
You can create a new folder on the desktop as well as on the computer drive.
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