Where a File Lives: Folders, Names and Backups · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Know where your file lives

Computing · Digital Literacy · ages 9-11
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. After you copy a story to the desktop, where is it?

    • In both places
    • Only on the desktop
    • Nowhere at all

  2. What does a path list?

    • Each letter you typed today
    • Each game you own
    • Each folder you pass to reach the file

  3. Moving a file leaves the first file in its old folder.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. A photo ends in .heic and a friend cannot open it. What helps?

    • Change it to .jpg so more apps open it
    • Rename it with no tail at all
    • Hide it deeper in folders

  5. What does .jpg tell the machine?

    • It is a song
    • It is a picture
    • It is a secret

  6. A backup is a second copy kept in case the first is lost.

    Circle one:   True   False

  7. Which name finds fastest next month?

    • My dragon story
    • File one final new
    • Stuff

  8. Sam keeps both copies on one desk. A drink spills. What went wrong?

    • He named them well
    • He copied too fast
    • Both copies shared one fate
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  1. In both places · Copying adds a twin and keeps the first.
  2. Each folder you pass to reach the file · A path reads like turns to a friend's house.
  3. False · Moving lifts it out, so one place holds it.
  4. Change it to .jpg so more apps open it · That common kind opens in more apps.
  5. It is a picture · The tail names the kind for the machine.
  6. True · Two copies beat one when loss strikes.
  7. My dragon story · A name that says the work finds it fast.
  8. Both copies shared one fate · Side by side copies drown in one spill.
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