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Learn how to interact with your files and navigate your folders.
Moving Files
- Copying will keep a file in the current location and then add another file to the new location (end with 2 files in 2 locations)
- Moving will move the file from the current location to the new location (end with 1 file in 1 location)
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Welcome back.
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We're going to focus on
a few things in this video.
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But let's start off with file paths.
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File paths are kind of addresses to
where your files are on your computer.
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You'll need to know how to find
your files when opening them in,
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say another program, or
accessing them through the terminal.
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We'll get into that more later on.
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First, let's figure out
what file paths are.
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I'm here in Documents again.
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I find the easiest way
to visualize file paths
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is to change the view
to this Columns view.
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Now as I click into this first folder,
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you can see that there was a file inside
of that folder called index.html.
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If I had another folder, And
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let's say I'm just gonna copy, Paste,
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And you can see once I click into this
new folder, then there's a file inside
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of that folder and
it can just keep going on and on and on.
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So for instance,
the navigation that we have to get
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to this index.HTML file is
to go to Documents, and
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then click inside of my folder here.
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And then click inside of new folder,
and then your file index.HTML.
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So the path is Documents > myFolderHere
> new_folder > index.html.
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Moving backwards, this index.html
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files file path would be Documents >
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myFolderHere, and then index.html.
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So it just kind of works
your way down the tree.
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Another common question
in regards to files
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is where your downloaded files end up.
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We're going to navigate out of Documents
and right below it into Downloads.
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This is a separate folder on your computer
where your downloaded files will appear.
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So anything you download from
your browser like Google Chrome,
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Firefox, or Safari,
will all end up in this folder.
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To move files out of this folder and
into your documents,
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you can either right-click them, copy
them, go into Documents, and then paste.
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Or let me delete this one because
we already have a file here.
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Or you can click and drag your file
into your Documents, and there it is.
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And just like you can drag from
your Downloads into your Documents,
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if I wanted this file to go into my
folder, I can just click and drag.
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And now if I click this little arrow,
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you can see I now have two index
files inside of that folder.
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And then similarly,
if I wanted to move it into this folder,
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just click and
drag to where it needs to go.
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Finally, I wanted to show you how to
find files when trying to open them in
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another program.
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If you're joining us as a part
of your coding journey,
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you might end up using something
like Visual Studio Code.
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When I open the program it prompts me
to create a new file or open a folder.
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What we want to do is open a folder,
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we want to go double-click
into our Documents.
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And I'm just gonna ing to say let's
double-click here into myFolderHere,
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so that we can get to
this index.html file.
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And then I can hit Open,
And now, you can see
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I still have access to that other folder
with those other two files inside of it.
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And I've access to our index.html
file here in Visual Studio Code.
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This same process will be
incredibly similar with any
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other program that needs to
open a file on your computer.
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In the next video we'll
look at working with zips.
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