Technology Tips: Moving Stored Files

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Technology Tips Moving Stored Files
Your computer hard drive will be upgraded during
the summer of 2004
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Technology Tips Moving Stored Files
You will need to move your important files from
your computer hard drive for safe keeping
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Technology Tips Moving Stored Files
Important files you now have stored on your hard
drive will be erased. So, protect them NOW!
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Technology Tips Moving Stored Files
Here is how you move your important files from
the hard drive to safe storage
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Follow these steps 1. Log in to your computer
using your user name and password.
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2. Open the application you have been creating
files in. (EX MS Word)
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3. Click on File, then Open to view your list of
files you want to move.
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3. Hold down the Ctrl key and use your mouse to
highlight each file you want to move.
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3. With mouse pointer over selected file names,
right click and choose Copy.
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4. Click on X to close this window.
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5. Click here to minimize all open windows to
show the desktop.
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6. Click on the My Computer icon to open its
window.
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7. Click on your H drive and open it. (It
includes part of your name.)
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9. With H drive open, right click your mouse and
select Paste.
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Your files will be copied into your H drive
folder for safe keeping.
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Repeat the process of copying and pasting your
other files to H drive.
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In the future make it a habit to save all of your
files to your H drive.