macOS Big Sur For Dummies

Chapter 8

File and Folder Management Made Easy

IN THIS CHAPTER

Getting organized with folders

Moving around files and folders

Introducing the incredible iCloud Drive

You’ll eventually accumulate a lot of files on your disk(s): tens, hundreds, thousands, even millions of files. I have well over a million files on my startup disk, with more than 50,000 of them in my Home folder alone.

In Chapter 7, you can read about Finder and opening and saving files. In this chapter, it’s time to take a look at how to organize all those files so you can find them when you need them.

Organizing Your Stuff in Folders

I won’t pretend to be able to organize your Mac for you. Organizing your files is as personal as your taste in music; you develop your own style with the Mac. But after you know how to open and save documents when you’re using applications, these sections provide food for thought — some ideas about how I organize things — and some suggestions that can make organization easier for you, regardless of how you choose to do it.

The upcoming sections look at the difference between a file and a folder; show you how to set up nested folders; and cover how some special folder features work. ...