Chapter 21Managing Files and Folders
Your computer's hard disk has enough space to store thousands of pictures, songs, and other files. Having lots of stuff on your computer can be a good thing, but only if you can find what you're looking for. Therefore, keeping files organized so you can find them easily is an important basic skill that every computer user needs to learn.
Chapter 20 discusses drives, folders, and files. It also tells you how to use Explorer to navigate your system and get to things you need. The chapter covers strategies for saving things in a way that prevents you from losing them.
This chapter picks up where that one left off. Here, we assume you've read and understood most of Chapter 20. Now you're ready to start reorganizing what you have. That requires that you know how to select, move, and copy files. You also discover other important techniques in this chapter, such as how to rename, delete, and un-delete files. These basic skills are important to acquire if you intend to use your computer for anything beyond basic e-mail and web browsing.
Selecting Icons
You often find that you want to perform an operation on many files. For example, say you want to copy a couple of dozen files to an external disk. You can do them one at a time, but ...
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