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Navigating a File System

Lost a document? . .  or a photo? Many times I’ve heard the statement "I lost the letter (substitute brief, document, manuscript, spreadsheet, picture, movie, song - ad infinitum) I had on the screen last week!  and been able to quickly find the lost file. The trick is knowing how the file structure in Windows (or Mac OS) is constructed. In layman’s terms it can best be described as an hierarchical tree structure. Big word that, but if you can imagine a family tree - or better still draw one on a sheet of paper - you have just drawn a file structure!  Simply replace the Adam and Eve part of the tree with C Drive and the descendants with folders and by George! you've got it! Now family trees are normally drawn horizontally but in the trade we always draw hierarchies vertically, working downwards from the ROOT so a normal representation of a single partition hard-drive is drawn as is the picture (Figure 2). But what do I mean by a single partition hard drive? Open My Computer by whatever means you are comfortable with and change the View to Icons. Figure 1 will display what your computer has and normally you will only see one hard disk (C:)

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Jae's Soapbox
SMILE

She smiles sweetly
To hide her fear
To hide the pain
That is always near.

Her stomach aches
From being sad
She wants to stop
Feeling so bad.

She wishes the world
Were a happier place
That way she could put
A smile on her face.

Will no one notice
The pain thats inside
Can no one see
How much she's cried.

Wanting to feel free
Wanting to be happy
Tired of pretending
There is no misery.
What will it take
For people to know
That the smile she shows
Is actually fake?

She has the world fooled
Thinking she's pleased
With how her life is going
Can they be so naive?

But someday soon
Someone will see
And notice that there
Is no bright star
To light up her misery
To fade away pain
And make her really smile
Once again.
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