{"id":2967,"date":"2011-07-08T00:01:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T07:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2011-07-07T22:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T05:20:04","slug":"boring-old-file-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=2967","title":{"rendered":"Boring Old File Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the most dreadful topics in all computerdom, but when you understand <em>file management<\/em>, you&#8217;ll find yourself getting a lot more done with your computers \u2014 and other electronics. You&#8217;ll also find that many things are a lot easier and less frustrating.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat is file management?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s boring. That&#8217;s probably why no one bothers. It&#8217;s also part of &#8220;computer science,&#8221; and with computers and smartphones being marketed as &#8220;simple to use,&#8221; no one believes they need to spend time learning the basics.<\/p>\n<p>I would say that file management is knowing how to do the following tasks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Create a folder.<\/li>\n<li>Copy a file from one folder to another.<\/li>\n<li>Move a file from one folder to another.<\/li>\n<li>Rename a file or folder.<\/li>\n<li>Delete a file or folder.<\/li>\n<li>Undelete a file for folder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to get all fancy, you can add backup, archiving, pruning, grafting, and other tasks, but the core duties for file management are shown above.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s just all so boring! Silly, even.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the silly thing is that these tasks aren&#8217;t that difficult to understand or use. Even so, people ignore them, much to their own peril.<\/p>\n<p>For example, people who don&#8217;t organize files are more apt to lose them. All. The. Time.<\/p>\n<p>The reason that Windows and the Mac OS X come with powerful file-finding commands is that people don&#8217;t organize their files so they can&#8217;t find them them. Of course, the file-finding commands are handy to have, but they wouldn&#8217;t be touted as top features if people would understand basic file management.<\/p>\n<p>One of the key things people with file organization skills can do is synchronize. For example, recently I got a new cell phone. It was no big deal to move my contacts, music, pictures, and videos from the old phone to the new one. That&#8217;s because the process is basically just file management: Copy and paste the files. Duh.<\/p>\n<p>Now I don&#8217;t cover the file management synch procedure in my <em>For Dummies<\/em> books on cell phones. That&#8217;s because I&#8217;d spend most of my time explaining the topic of file management, which isn&#8217;t really relevant to the book. And I don&#8217;t bother putting file management information in other books because, after doing this for 20 years or so, I recognize that people won&#8217;t read it.<\/p>\n<p><em>At their own peril!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I suppose I could make file management exciting, but seriously: With all the &#8220;easy to use&#8221; malarkey out there selling electronics, it&#8217;s kind of a futile battle.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s just sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the most dreadful topics in all computerdom, but when you understand file management, you&#8217;ll find yourself getting a lot more done with your computers \u2014 and other electronics. 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