Moving and Copying Folders and Files

When you have accumulated enough files that you need to organize them in some way, you can easily move files and folders from one location to another. The methods of copying, pasting, moving, and renaming are the same for both files and folders.

One of the ways you might want to organize your files is by type. As you saw in "Viewing Information About a Folder or File" earlier in this chapter, Windows Vista includes four types of folders that are designed to hold files of a certain type: Documents, Pictures and Videos, Music Details, and Music Icons. When you display the contents of the folder, buttons on the toolbar provide easy access to features appropriate for that type of file, such as playing music or viewing photographs.

In this exercise, you will make copies of files and folders and then move files between folders.

1.	Navigate to the MSP\SBS_WindowsVista\Chapter03 subfolder.
2.	With the contents of the Chapter03 folder displayed in the Content pane in Details view, click the 05_Introduction audio file to select it. Then on the Organize menu, click Copy. Nothing seems to happen.
3.	Right-click the 05_Narrations folder, and then click Paste. The folder's modification date changes to reflect when the folder was modified.
4.	Double-click the 05_Narrations folder to verify that it now contains a copy of the 05_Introduction file. A Play All button appears on the toolbar so that you can play the audio file if you want.
5.	Click the Back button, select the 05_Introduction file, and delete it, clicking Yes when prompted to confirm the deletion. Back
6.	In the Content pane, right-click 05_Cat, and click Cut. Then right-click the 05_Photographs folder, and click Paste. The 05_Cat image moves to the 05_Photographs folder.
7.	Click the Type column heading to sort the files by type.
8.	Click 05_Crow (the first JPEG Image file in the list), hold down the key, and click 05_Frog. Then on the Organize menu, click Cut.
9.	Right-click the 05_Photographs folder, and then click Paste. The selected JPEG image files move to the folder.
10.	In the Content pane, drag the 05_MusicBox file to the 05_Photographs folder, but don't release the mouse button. The 05_Photographs folder is highlighted, and a ScreenTip appears with the instruction Move to 05_Photographs.
11.	Release the mouse button to move the file. Tip To copy a file by dragging it, point to the file, hold down the Ctrl key, and then drag the copy to its new location, releasing first the mouse button and then the Ctrl key.
12.	In the Navigation pane, click 05_Photographs to display its contents in the Content pane. Because this folder has been designated as a Picture And Video folder, the toolbar includes a Slide Show button. [View full size image]
13.	Click the first image in the file (05_Cat), and on the toolbar, click Slide Show. The 05_Cat graphic is displayed full-screen. After a few seconds, the next graphic appears.
14.	After the slide show has cycled through all the graphics in the folder, press the key to end the slide show.