#File Explorer in Windows

[techdirectarchive]

Video on How To Add Google Drive To File Explorer in Windows

Add Google Drive To File Explorer in Windows

[commodorez]

Zoomer here, and I do indeed have questions about computers- how do filesystems work, and why should we care (I know we should, but I'm not exactly sure why)?

So why should we care?

You need to know where your own files are.

I've got a file on a flash drive that's been handed to me, or an archival data CD/DVD/Bluray, or maybe it's a big heavy USB external hard drive and I need to make a copy of it on my local machine.

Do I know how to navigate to that portable media device within a file browser?

Where will I put that data on my permanent media (e.i. my laptop's hard drive)?

How will I be able to reliably find it again?

We'll cover more of the Why and How, but this will take some time, and a few addendum posts because I'm actively hitting the character limit and I've rewritten this like 3 times.

Let's start with file structure

Files live on drives: big heavy spinning rust hard drives, solid state m.2 drives, USB flash drives, network drives, etc. Think of a drive like a filing cabinet in an office.

You open the drawer, it's full of folders. Maybe some folders have other folders inside of them. The folders have a little tab with a name on it showing what's supposed to be in them. You look inside the folders, there are files. Pieces of paper. Documents you wrote. Photographs. Copies of pages from a book. Maybe even the instruction booklet that came with your dishwasher.

We have all of that here, but virtualized! Here's a helpful tree structure that Windows provides to navigate through all of that. In the case of Windows, it's called Explorer. On OSX MacOS, the equivalent is called Finder.

I don't have to know where exactly everything is, but I have a good idea where thing *should* based on how I organize them. Even things that don't always expose the file structure to you have one (like my cellphone on the right). I regularly manually copy my files off of my cellphone by going to the Camera folder so I can sift through them on a much bigger screen and find the best ones to share. There are other reasons I prefer to do it that way, but we won't go into that here. Some people prefer to drag and drop, but that doesn't always work the same between operating systems. I prefer cut and paste.

Standby for Part 2!

[gothtosh]

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[nofollowgame]

🔶 Various screenshots from No Follow :: File #000015, a browser 「game」 on Neocities about the internet of yore & w/e else.

[awfullybigwardrobe44]

Got my new phone up and running. Only cried several times

[positivefumo]

this is where the IOSYS band got their name

[mountmortar]

annoying to me that macOS by default hides the root directory from the user in finder. like i get that it's because most users never actually have to do anything with the root directory but come on man (<-complaining for no reason. it took like 0.02 seconds to pull up and pin the root directory to the sidebar in finder)

[airasora]

So something weird is going on with the file icons and thumbnails on my video files:

My video files usually show a thumbnail, but sometime today any new video files I make show the icon and not the thumbnail.

I've checked my settings, they're set to showing the thumbnail and not just the icon.

I've also reset the settings, this has not changed anything.

This happens only with video files, but affects all video file types such as MP4 and MOV.

I'm lost as to what's going on and how to fix it. I use the thumbnail A LOT when finding files with the type of hobby I have, so I really hope someone has an ideas what's going on...

I use Windows 11.

[neverfeltthewinterquitesodead]

i trimmed my nail with paper scissors today.

[dreamingkatfish]

Anyone else notice the latest windows update causing the file explorer to lag to hell and not show the sidebar immediately or just me?

[kamalkafir-blog]

Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer

[TECH AND FINANCIAL] Microsoft is starting to integrate AI shortcuts, or what it calls AI actions, into the File Explorer in Windows 11. These shortcuts let you right-click on a file and quickly get to Windows AI features like blurring the background of a photo, erasing objects, or even summarizing content from Office files. Four image actions are currently being tested in the latest Dev…

[nofollowgame]

🔶 Flip phone fiasco in No Follow :: File #000015, a browser 「game」 on Neocities about the internet of yore & w/e else.

Java: You should probably have a way to reach us if things go sour in there, hm? Java: Just uh… don't look through my messages. Seo: ……sure. Java: Very reassuring.

[ajabberwalk]

so anyway

fools here that have windows 10 or 11 idk which one mine is (i think it's windows 10)

bubbles speedrun any percent tutorial

open file explorer

2. go to, "This PC", then go to Windows-SSD (C:)

(it could also not be (C:) but whatever)

3. look up system32 in the thing that says, "Search Windows-SSD (C:)"

4. click the folder thing that is named system32 and hit enter on ya keyboard

5. go to the bottom right corner of the screen in file explorer and hover over the CRT lookin thing and make sure it says, "Displays items using large thumbnails (Ctrl+Shift+2)"

6. scroll down until you see another CRT lookin thing with coloured lines on the screen of the CRT lookin thing, and make sure it is named "Bubbles"

7. click the aforementioned "Bubbles" and hit enter, and don't move your mouse or touch your trackpad or whatever

8. enjoy the bubble and write your time down

[softgrungeprophet]

experiencing a fun new bug in firefox where when i want to upload a picture and go into "recent folders" and double click a folder, it tries to read the folder itself as if it were an image or file being uploaded, unsurprisingly throws an error, then reloads me into the gallery folder instead

it does not do this for any other folders, of course, just "recent folders"

[kaiasky]

to the aspiring quantum physicist, the thought that the very act of observing it may alter it can be hard to accept. however, to those misfortune enough to program in Windows for any significant time....

[hackeocafe]

The File Explorer Replacement - The Files App for Windows!

The Windows File Explorer has been around for a while, with very few changes over the years. In this video, I'll show you an alternative to the file explorer that you might want to consider. The "Files" application. This open source application attempts to modernize the Windows 11 File Explorer while providing features that should have been added to the File Explorer by default. I'll be going over some of the application's key features, comparing it to the default file explorer and finally, I'll go over some of the things that you should consider before switching to it for yourself. Either way, I'm sure you'll appreciate some of the features that this application brings to the table.