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On a PC, basically, I knew how to find any file in any folder, and how to set up file folders and organize them in a way that made sense to me. There was a root folder, there was a personal folder. there was a documents folder, and a pictures folder. I understood where programs stored their data if it wasn't one of the above. I loved that, but I also came to hate the clutter it supported. One of the reasons I wanted to move to a Mac was to make all of that easier.
But my first days of Mac usage have me struggling on this score. I migrated a small number of photos from my Windows Machine and dropped them on the desktop. I'm sure they're supposed to go somewhere, but it's not intuitively obvious where they're supposed to go.
Likewise, I migrated a small number of Powerpoint templates from my PC, and dropped them on the Mac desktop, again with no way to understand where they are supposed to go.
And then finally, when I open Finder it shows me ALL of my files but I can't tell how they are organized or related to each other. It's just a big list of files in alphabetical order.
So, what's the right way to do this? Where are the right places to put files so that they are organized? I seem to remember something about Macs being object oriented, and that the apps organized their own data, but is that really true? I think the iPad is kind of like that.
Where does one even learn these things, other than to ask here?
But my first days of Mac usage have me struggling on this score. I migrated a small number of photos from my Windows Machine and dropped them on the desktop. I'm sure they're supposed to go somewhere, but it's not intuitively obvious where they're supposed to go.
Likewise, I migrated a small number of Powerpoint templates from my PC, and dropped them on the Mac desktop, again with no way to understand where they are supposed to go.
And then finally, when I open Finder it shows me ALL of my files but I can't tell how they are organized or related to each other. It's just a big list of files in alphabetical order.
So, what's the right way to do this? Where are the right places to put files so that they are organized? I seem to remember something about Macs being object oriented, and that the apps organized their own data, but is that really true? I think the iPad is kind of like that.
Where does one even learn these things, other than to ask here?