Transcript Configuring drives

Configuring
Shortcuts
C: Drive
D: Drive
F:Drive
Z: Drive
Shortcuts
To notepad
To class web site
Shortcut to Notepad
 Notepad is a text editor…like a word processor that can’t do bold,
underline, change font…
 We will use it to create web pages (HTML-Hypertext Markup Language)
 Click Start button
 Select All Programs
 Select/Find Accessories>Notepad…don’t run the program, just right-mouse
and drag it to the desktop…say to create shortcuts here
 (Note: To run Notepad in Windows 10, use windows key + R , stands for Run;
type notepad
Shortcut to class web site (schedule)
 Open the class Web site in IE (or chrome, or firefox)

www.jma.duq.edu/classes/shepherd/jma260
 Use the left mouse button and click and drag the “e” in the address bar to
your desktop
Say to create a link (shortcut) on your desktop
Folder Relationships
C: Drive
 OS
 Your apps (Program Files, Program Files (x86) )
 C: Users>Your login name
 Your desktop apps
 Do NOT save files to C: drive
D: Drive
 Scratch disk—store anything there
 Anyone can delete, change etc…
 i.e. temporary storage…we won’t be using it
F: (maybe J: drive)
 Your USB drive letter- probably F:
 Save your work there
 When done, copy it to Z: drive…will show how later
Z: Drive
 aka network folder, user folder, home folder
 It’s also a shortcut
 To a computer managed by Duquesne computer department
 Only available in rooms 205, 345
 Open up Z:
 Should see pub. Our tech guy, Phil, created the folder for you
 Place anything you want to be seen, and accessed, by anyone via Web.
 Don’t modify, delete pub
 You’re going to put your homework solutions there so GA can grade
Z: cont…
 We want to end up with configuration like this
pub
JMA260
Assignments
Practice
Images
Client
Each of the three main child folders is
then the parent of an Images folder…
Z: …
 How do we create folders?
 Create a JMA260 folder (NO SPACES) inside pub
 Inside the JMA260 folder create the 4 child folders
 Create an Images folder inside each of the three main folders
 Example
JMA260
Assignments
Images
Z:…
 The Z:drive configuration:
And…
Root
folder
Configuring USB device
 Same Z: Except:
 No pub.
 New folder: InClass :
 Try create JMA260 child folders on your own
 Want to end up with:
 Index.htm will be important…
 don’t create at this time
 Also HTML folder
Inside InClass create these folders
 Dreamweaver
 Illustrator
 Photoshop
 Premiere
 Encore
 Images
 Inside each create child Images folders (NOT inside Images, however)
Complete USB configuration
Using drives
 Practice: Transferring files between Z: and F: (USB)
 working with pdf (Portable Document Files)
Practice
 Start Word
 Type This is my first pdf
 File>Save as Adobe pdf
Save first as a .docx, then as a pdf
Note:
 We have a color and a black and white laser printer in the labs…always
select black/white unless told otherwise
Pdf…
 Save your pdf in Practice folder on USB as MyFirstpdf
 Very Important Policy
 Since this document will go on or Web site, NO SPACES in File names…or will see
%20 for every space
 Close Word
Pdf…
 Drag MyFirstpdf.pdf over to Practice on Z: drive
Do you know how to:
 Show file extensions?
 Vary the way folder content shows? (i.e. as folders, as lists, …
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