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File Management—


                     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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