 How
to organize your my documents files and folders
By Mitz
Free computer Tips
My documents folder is where all your files and
folders are stored that you have actually created. It contains a My Music
folder, My videos folder, My pictures folder, and so on. All of these
folders are the default storage space for a particular file type. For
example any picture you want to save will be put into my picture folder
which is located in my documents.
Unfortunately sometimes not all files go to the
right folders and this is why we have to organize the my documents folder.
People get lazy and just save files in the closest folder they can find.
However when everything is in its right spot it is so much easier to find
when you need it.
Here is a quick video on how to organize your my
documents folder..
Notes:
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My documents folder should contain all the files that you
personally create. There should be no exceptions. It is not good to store
files and folders directly on to c: drive.
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To view your computer
files in a folder by the date they were last
modified, open a folder and on the View menu click Details. On the
top of the column, click Date Modified.
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Choose to Arrange by File type
to put all the similar computer files together. This is handy when you want to move
files around as it makes it easy to select them all together.
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If you're backing up your information to a CD or DVD, be sure to
create labels for your CDs that in some way describe their contents. For
example, you might title the CD "2007 backup of my
documents" or be more specific with
something like "2007 Email contacts, my docs, xmas
photos, resume, downloads"
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After you delete an email, be sure to also
clear out the deleted folder.
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In
Microsoft Word, you can change the default folder to where files will be
saved.
On the Tools menu, click Options, and click
File Locations
In the list, click Documents, and then navigate to your main directory; in this
example, C:/My Documents/word documents
Here's a fun way to
organize your folders and it
looks great too..
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