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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition
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My New Mac, Snow Leopard Edition, 2nd Edition

by Wallace Wang
August 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
512 pages
11h 9m
English
No Starch Press
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Chapter 14. Organizing Files and Folders by Color and Weird Words

Organizing files is like organizing clothes. It's much easier just to toss them in a pile when you're done with them, but then finding them later can prove difficult. Just as you need to take time to organize your clothes so you can quickly find them again, so should you create separate folders to store your files and give each file a descriptive name that will always help you remember what that file contains.

Of course, sometimes the best way to search for a file is through your own unique system of mental association that may make sense to nobody else. You may not remember that you named a file January Monthly Budget or that you stored it in a folder called Budgets. However, you ...

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