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transferring them, you can rename images with more descriptive names.treeS
One way to illustrate the organization of folders on a drive is to display them
as a tree. In this view, all folders branch off from the drive—something like an
organization chart. If any of these folders contain subfolders, those subfold-
ers are shown as a second branch from the first. When using a tree, you can
expand and collapse the entire tree or any branch. This allows you to alter-
nate between a summary of the computer’s contents, and details of each drive
or folder.PAthS
With files stored in folders on a disk, you specify a path to get to them. For
example, if a file named IMG_4692.JPG is in a subfolder named 146CANON
that’s in a folder named DCIM on drive H, the path to that file is H:\DCIM\
146CANON\IMG_4692.JPG. The key elements of a path—the drive, folder,
subfolder, and filename—are separated by backslashes (\). You might be
more familiar with paths from your Web browser that uses a similar ap-
proach using slashes. For example, the URL...
http://www.shortcourses.com/index.html
... is a path to a specific page on the Web. Normally you don’t type in paths,
you click drives or folders to open them. However, many programs display
paths on the screen as a navigational aide and so it’s easy to confirm the ac-
tual location of the file on your system.Here is the path to the
file IMG_4692.JPG in
subfolder 146CANON
that’s in the DCIM folder
on drive H. The drive,
folder, subfolder, and
filename are separated
by backslashes.
A tree displayed by
Windows Explorer
indicates drives and
folders with icons and
labels. The - and +
signs indicate if a drive
or folder is expanded
(-) to show subfolders,
or collapsed (+) to hide
them.
Here is the path to an
image as displayed in
Lightroom.