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Interacting With Your Files

4:10 with Megan Amendola

Learn how to interact with your files and navigate your folders.

Welcome back. 0:00
We're going to focus on a few things in this video. 0:01
But let's start off with file paths. 0:03
File paths are kind of addresses to where your files are on your computer. 0:07
You'll need to know how to find your files when opening them in another program or 0:12
accessing them through the terminal. 0:17
We'll get to that more later on. 0:20
First, let's figure out what file paths are. 0:22
I'm here in Documents again, and 0:26
I find the easiest way to visualize file paths is to watch this bar right here. 0:28
You can see right now, it says, This PC, and then Documents 0:37
because we're on This PC, and inside of the Documents folder. 0:41
Now, if I click into this folder here that we created, 0:47
you can see now I have Documents, then I'm inside of my_folder_here. 0:51
If I click this little button, you can see I'm inside of This PC, 0:57
my Documents, my_folder. 1:01
So it just dives deeper into the file structure. 1:05
Now, if I had a file inside of this folder, click and 1:12
drag to move this inside of this folder. 1:17
We would say that my index here is on This PC under my 1:21
Documents inside of my_folder_here, and 1:26
then we can access myIndexHere, this HTML file. 1:30
Another common question in regards to files is where your downloaded files 1:38
end up. 1:43
Let's navigate out of our Documents and into the Downloads folder. 1:44
You can see it's right here above Documents, and 1:49
it has this little Downloads arrow buttons. 1:52
This is a separate folder on your computer, 1:56
where your downloaded files will appear. 1:59
So anything you download from your browser like Google Chrome, 2:02
Firefox, it will all end up in this folder. 2:07
To move files out of this folder and into your documents, 2:11
you can either right click and copy them. 2:15
This will leave a version of the file here, and make a copy to put 2:19
into your documents, or I'm just going to delete this for right now. 2:25
You can choose to Cut, which will remove the file from your Downloads folder, 2:33
and it will put it here inside of your Documents. 2:40
Now, the last way that you can move files around is you can actually just 2:46
drag them into these different folders. 2:51
So I can move it from Downloads to Documents. 2:55
And then when I click over, there it is. 2:58
Finally, I wanna show you how to find files when trying to open them in another 3:04
program. 3:08
If you're joining us as a part of your coding journey, 3:10
you might end up using Visual Studio Code. 3:13
When I open up Visual Studio Code, 3:17
you can see it gives me a few things to start off with. 3:18
We wanna start with Open Folder. 3:22
I highly suggest putting all of your project files inside of a folder to 3:24
keep track of everything. 3:29
You can navigate to Documents. 3:31
Then let's go to my_folder_here. 3:33
And I'm going to click the button that says Select Folder. 3:36
I can close out of that get started, and you can see I have MY_FOLDER_HERE. 3:41
Let me zoom this in a little bit so it's a little bit easier to see. 3:46
And then you can see I have that file we were playing around with earlier, 3:51
myIndexHere. 3:55
And if I click on it, it opens it up here in Visual Studio Code so 3:56
I can edit it to my heart's desire. 3:59
In the next video, we'll talk about zipped files. 4:06