7. Managing Files and Using External Storage

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In this chapter, you’ll learn how to manage stored and downloaded files on your Chromebook, and on external devices connected to your Chromebook.

Using Chrome’s File Manager

Using an External USB Memory Device or Memory Card

Your Chromebook is designed to be a cloud-based computing device. That is, it’s designed to work with web-based applications and files stored on the Web. As such, it doesn’t have much in the way of internal storage—a relatively meager 16GB of flash memory and no hard drive.

You can, however, connect memory cards and USB memory devices to your Chromebook and use those devices ...

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