Thread: Copying a file

You never forget to keep duplicate copies of your important documents. These copies save you from trouble when the original documents are lost or get damaged. Similarly, a computer file may also get corrupted. This corruption will make you lose important information stored in it. But if there is a duplicate copy of the lost information, saved in the computer, the data can be accessed from this copied file. So the best solution in such case is to have more than one copy of your important files in computer. You can have a duplicate copy of your file in a different folder under the same name or a different name. You can also make its duplicate copy in its original folder but with a different name.

Let us now make a duplicate copy of the Vikas file, present under the Local Disk. We will also store it inside a folder, say, temp. To do the desired task, we proceed in the following way:

1. Start with the Explorer window of My Computer. In the Folders box of this window, move the mouse-pointer over the Local Disk and cfiCkthe left mouse-button.

2. When the contents of the Local Disk get displayed in the Contents box, movethe mouse-pointer over the Vikas file and click the left mouse-button once to highlight it.

3. Now, move the mouse-pointer over the Edit option on the Menu bar, and dCkthe left mouse-button. Immediately, a pull-down menu appears.

4. Inside the pull-down menu, move the mouse-pointer over the Copy option and click the left mouse¬button. Now, your computer has made a copy of the Vikas file, and it awaits your instruction to paste it at a location of your choice.

5. To copy the Vikas file to the temp folder, you have to locate the folder in the Contents box.

6. After locating the temp folder. move the mouse-pointer over it and double-click the left mouse-button. Immediately, the empty temp folder opens on the screen. The temp folder is empty because we have not stored any files in it.



7. Now clickthe left mouse-button on the Edit option of the Menu bar of the temp window. In the pull-down menu that appears, move the mouse pointer to the raste option and cbekthe left mouse-button. lnstantly, the Vikas file gets copied inside the temp folder. Now the temp folder's Contents box displays the Vikas file.

After making a duplicate c;opy of the Vikas file and storing it in the temp folder, your file-folder structure will he as follows: Now let us practice this through an exercise i.e. create a new folder and copy a file into it.

Create a new folder WI under the Local Disk and copy a file, say Vikas, into it. Also draw the file-folder structure.

• Begin with the Explorer window of Local Disk.

• Click the right mouse-button at an empty space in the Local Disk Contents box.

• Click on the New option in the shortcut menu and then on the Folder option.

• Type the name, Wl, and click somewhere else inside the Contents box.

• Look for the Vikas file inside the Contents box and click on it.

• Click on the Edit and then on the Copy option of the pull down menu.

• Look again for Wl sub-folder inside the Contents box.

• Double-click the left mouse-button on Wl sub-folder.

• Click on the Edit and then on the Paste option of the pull¬down menu. After creation of the 'folder and copying the Vikas file into it, the file-folder structure would be as follows: