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Navigating a File System - Part 1
Many times I've heard the statement - usually a plaintive cry - "I've lost my letter [ substitute spreadsheet, document, picture, photo, movie, music ]. I was working on it a few minutes ago and now it's gone!" The beauty of Windows is you have to be really clever to actually lose a file! It takes two distinct actions to delete a file and another whole new process to lose it! The only unrecoverable loss is if you fail to save your work before closing the program you are using. Who amongst us has not had two documents open, saved one, then closed the program, only to be confronted by a pop-up window that asked do we want to save the changes to document x and we've clicked on No! Oops . . . document gone!
(unless of course if you were smart enough to set your Auto-save feature)
Accidentally deleting a file needs a two-step accident! Windows always asks "Are you sure?" and even then it can be recovered from the Recycle Bin. We all know how to find the Recycle Bin because it's an icon on the Windows Desktop but some of us get confused when we have to use Windows Explorer. Over the next few issues we will explore the Explorer and Search functions of Windows in depth. Most of the information readily converts to the matching features on Macintosh computers.
Many times I've heard the statement - usually a plaintive cry - "I've lost my letter [ substitute spreadsheet, document, picture, photo, movie, music ]. I was working on it a few minutes ago and now it's gone!" The beauty of Windows is you have to be really clever to actually lose a file! It takes two distinct actions to delete a file and another whole new process to lose it! The only unrecoverable loss is if you fail to save your work before closing the program you are using. Who amongst us has not had two documents open, saved one, then closed the program, only to be confronted by a pop-up window that asked do we want to save the changes to document x and we've clicked on No! Oops . . . document gone!
(unless of course if you were smart enough to set your Auto-save feature)
Accidentally deleting a file needs a two-step accident! Windows always asks "Are you sure?" and even then it can be recovered from the Recycle Bin. We all know how to find the Recycle Bin because it's an icon on the Windows Desktop but some of us get confused when we have to use Windows Explorer. Over the next few issues we will explore the Explorer and Search functions of Windows in depth. Most of the information readily converts to the matching features on Macintosh computers.
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Jae's Soapbox
Forever gone but forever in our hearts
The caring prayers, the shaking shock
This awful news my world did rock
No-one knew how it happened or why
We were all so sad, it made me cry
How unfair it should have happened now
Won't someone ever tell me how?
His tears had dried, his pain had healed
And God chose this time for his life to yield
It's later now, while we've moved on
We miss him as though he'd just gone
We'll never forget all the good he did
Even though to him our farewells we've bid
We love him still, we miss him yet
And on this I'll forever bet
If he is truly in our hearts
From us he'll never be truly apart.
In dedication and Memory of My Guardian Angel
Dennis Christopher Keogh
15.8.1985 - 9.5.2005
The caring prayers, the shaking shock
This awful news my world did rock
No-one knew how it happened or why
We were all so sad, it made me cry
How unfair it should have happened now
Won't someone ever tell me how?
His tears had dried, his pain had healed
And God chose this time for his life to yield
It's later now, while we've moved on
We miss him as though he'd just gone
We'll never forget all the good he did
Even though to him our farewells we've bid
We love him still, we miss him yet
And on this I'll forever bet
If he is truly in our hearts
From us he'll never be truly apart.
In dedication and Memory of My Guardian Angel
Dennis Christopher Keogh
15.8.1985 - 9.5.2005