File Concepts

Your computer stores the many files which you use every day, be they Word Processing Documents, Image Files, Web Pages, Presentations, Spreadsheets or many more they are all stored on one of a number of devices.

List four storage devices and find a picture of each.

On these disks the files are organised by your operating system in a hierarchical structure. Just like you might find in a paper filing system only this heirarchy can be extremely large. Files are stored within folders (directories), folders can also be stored inside other folders and so on.

Make a diagram depicting heirarchy of the following system.

Within a folder called Swiming Club are two folders, one called Accounts and another called Staff. Within the accounts folders are three folders one each for the years 2004 - 2006. Each of these folders contains a spreadsheet file called expenses and another called membership fees.

Within the Staff folder there are two folders one called Matt Smith and another called Amy Conifer. Both folders contain the following word documents: cv, job description & contract. In adition to this Amy Conifer's folder contains a file called Annual Appraisal 2005.

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