“I downloaded it to my desktop.”
So where is that? On your hard drive? How do you plan to find it when you need it? A file manager is the answer.
If you save everything to your desktop, it’s going to get pretty cluttered after a while.You can clean it up quite a bit by putting stuff in folders.
If You Have a Computer, You Have a File Manager
That’s the good news.
- If you have a Windows machine, it’s called “Windows Explorer” (not to be confused with Internet Explorer, which is for the web.)
- If you have a Mac, it’s called “Finder”
Either way, it allows you to do a ton of stuff with files and folders:
- organize your files in folders
- create folders
- rename files and folders
- delete files and folders
- move files and folders
- copy files and folders
- Much more…
Here are things you can and should be able to do:
- Create a folder
- Put a file in the folder
- Find the folder
- Move a file to another folder
- Rename a file or folder
- Delete a file or folder
- Select a bunch of files or folders and do something with them
- Make a copy of a file or folder
Now you know. Now what?
The tasks listed above go for any file management system, regardless of whether it lives on your computer, your tablet, on a server somewhere, or “in the cloud”. On each system, actually doing one of those tasks may or may not be achieved in the same way.
Here’s the way I do operate, and it has served me well:
“Be aware of what can be done. When you need to do it, find out. If it’s easy to remember, you just gained a new skill. If it’s not, you still know it can be done.”
File management is something you need to do, whether you know it or not.If you don’t think about it, you are guaranteed to have trouble finding things.
The point of this article is to make you aware of file management, and to think about it. Go forth and figure it out.
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