FILE MANAGEMENT CONT'D
Duration: 1 hour
LESSON OBJECTIVES
- Define the terms: drive, folder/directory and file/directory path
- Recognize computer drives by their drive letter
- Explain the terms: ‘directory structure’ and ‘root folder’.
- Identify root directories, parent folders and sub-folders.
- Create a model of a directory structure of a personal file system
- Create folders on the computer desktop to store personal files
- Create sub-directories
- Create a file in Microsoft Word
- Save files in a folder
- Determine the path to a file.
Prerequisite Knowledge: Students should know the methods of file management, parts of a file name and classification of files based on file types.
Computer Drives
A computer drive is a piece of hardware that is used to read and store information on the computer and that is usually not as easily removed as a disk. Microsoft Windows users can identify which drives Windows has detected by opening File Explorer, My Computer or pressing the Windows key + E.
Note: Whenever someone says they save the file on the computer, it simple means that the file is store on the hard disk.
Cloud-based drives are also areas to store files. For example, One drive and Google drive.
A computer drive is a piece of hardware that is used to read and store information on the computer and that is usually not as easily removed as a disk. Microsoft Windows users can identify which drives Windows has detected by opening File Explorer, My Computer or pressing the Windows key + E.
Note: Whenever someone says they save the file on the computer, it simple means that the file is store on the hard disk.
Cloud-based drives are also areas to store files. For example, One drive and Google drive.
IMPORTANT NOTES
- Each drive is assigned a letters to identify them.
- The letters identifies the root or where the file has originated from (this means the location the file was saved in)
Activity: Identifying Drives
Directory Structure
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Sample directory structure.
Question:
1: What is the root directory in the directory structure above? 2. On which drive is the sub-directory of the root directory was stored in. |
FILE PATH/DIRECTORY PATH
A path is a list, beginning with a drive letter, that tells which folders to open so that you can find a file or another folder.
The diagram illustrates a file path from the directory structure shown on the right
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Directory Structure in which the file click.mp3 is found.
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Let'a explain the file path.
To access the file click.mp3, the user has to follow these steps:
To access the file click.mp3, the user has to follow these steps:
- Open the C:\ drive
- Select the user folder from the drive
- Select the sarah folder
- Select the music folder and then you will see the file in the folder.
END OF LESSON ACTIVITY
What did you learn? Show how much you learned by completing the activity below.
Using the directory structure on your left to answer the questions below:
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Class Activity: Use the following directory structure to answer the questions below.
The information below refers to the image on the left. Do you see plus and minus signs to the left of the folders. The: + means the folder contains other folders and can be expanded. - means the folder has been expanded/opened and can be closed. when no symbol is beside the folder, that means there is no sub folders to be displayed. |
Requirements
- Identify the active drive.
- Identify the FOUR sub-directories of the root folder
- Identify the active sub- folder of the root directory
- Identify the sub-directories of the active sub-folder
- Identify the sub-directory of BIBTEX
- Identify the sub-directory of TEX
- Draw a directory structure to show how the folders/directories are organized on the C:\drive