A file is an individual document (spreadsheet, text file, illustration, picture, movie, and so
forth) on your Mac, while a folder is a container for multiple files. Folders on a Mac are
used just like folders in a filing cabinet, but unlike filing cabinet folders, they can hold as
many files (documents) as you see fit to put in them. Folders are your Mac??™s primary method
of organization.
A Map of Your Desktop
Now that you have a basic idea of what the typical items in a GUI are, Figure 2-5 gives you a
little tour of the desktop.
FIGURE 2-4 The multitalented Dock
26 How to Do Everything: Mac
Hard Disks, CDs, and DVDs
Hard disks (also known as hard drives), CDs, and DVDs are just different methods of storing
information, or data.
Your Mac comes with an internal hard disk that it uses to store the operating system files that
run your Mac, the applications you use, the documents you create, and pretty much everything
else on your Mac. Hard disks are not removable like CDs and DVDs, but are capable of holding
a great deal more information than CDs and DVDs and generally enable you to access that
information faster than you can access information on CDs and DVDs.
Pages:
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87