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Working with files and folders

Working with files and folders

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Working with files and folders

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- [Man] Working with files and folders in Fedora in Windows and macOS, although there's one difference you might notice. On this screen here, there aren't any icons, and if I right-click, I don't have any options to create folders or anything else that you'd be used to doing with files on a desktop. To work with files, I'll need to open up the Files application. And when I do that, I start out in my Home folder. Inside the window, I see some folders, and I also see these same folders listed on the sidebar on the left. Every user in the system has a separate Home folder, with Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, and other folders for specific uses. These are pinned to the sidebar for quick access. I don't have any files yet, because this is a clean install, so let's open up the Text Editor and make a file we can work with. I'll click on Activities, choose Show Applications, and then click on Text Editor. and when I save the file, I see the Home folder, and I can browse around in this…

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