Tag Archives: Files and Folders

Zip your files to pass them on

By Sherman | Published: September 22nd
If you need to send a bunch of files – whether over email or drop.io (for big big files) – it’s easiest to archive them: put a bunch of files into one “ZIP” file.  Both windows and mac can help you do this. On your PC, select all the files you want to “zip” (archive) [...]
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Dropbox for multiple computers

By Sherman | Published: August 20th
I use several computers and need to move files between them often. I could use a USB drive or email, but the simple solution for me is Dropbox. Dropbox a program that runs on each of my computers – home, laptop and work. It creates a folder where I can store documents, images, other folders [...]
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Undo before anything else

By Sherman | Published: August 18th
I’ve talked about this A LOT; but “Undo” is my first stop on almost every “oops” moment on the computer. If I accidentally delete, move or rename files I didn’t mean to If text moves or changes in an email or document that I want back if something seems different on my computer but I’m [...]
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Rename a file

By Sherman | Published: August 17th
I rename more files than I care to count. And it takes a lot of time when I have to use a mouse. Thankfully there’s a really, really fast way to rename a file with the keyboard Highlight the file you want to rename and hit the F2 key on your keyboard.   You’ll notice that [...]
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