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Creating a shortcut

Creating a shortcut

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Creating a shortcut

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- [Instructor] Here in this folder window you see items related to my Los Angeles vacation, all organized as best as I can organize it. The folder is located in the Los Angeles folder, in the 2021 folder, in the Vacations subfolder of the Documents folder. But over here is my Pictures folder. So what I'd like to do is have a copy of this folder here in my Pictures folder to keep things organized. Now I have several approaches to solve this problem. If I copy the folder directly so drag it over here and press the control key to copy, then what I'm doing is duplicating a lot of data and a lot of bytes and consuming way more storage than is necessary. So instead I'm going to create a shortcut. With the folder selected, press control, C to copy. Now I'm not going to copy the folder. Instead here in the Pictures folder, I click the Home tab and click this icon here, Paste Shortcut. The shortcut icon appears. It's named…

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