Create your own folders

At any time you can create your own folders where you can store your documents and organize your files. For instance, you might want a folder in which to store all your financial documents. And another folder for all your newsletter files. And yet another for the screenplays you're writing. All of these documents could go inside the Documents folder, but to find the individual items that belong together would soon become unwieldy.

Use digital folders on your Mac as you would use paper folders in a metal filing cabinet. See page 128 for a tip on how to save files directly into your custom folders.

  • To open a folder, double-click on it.
  • To go back to the contents of the previous folder, single-click the left-pointing triangle, ...

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