From the course: macOS Monterey Essential Training

Use the exercise files - macOS Tutorial

From the course: macOS Monterey Essential Training

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Use the exercise files

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- [Instructor] You don't really need any specific exercise files to work through this course. When we work with files in the course, you can use your own files, but if you don't have any files to work with, we've included some that you can download. For most courses, I assume that you know how to download files from the web and put them in the right place. But since many people watching this course are learning macOS from the beginning. I'll walk you through the process of downloading the exercise files. In my web browser, we're looking at the course page for an older macOS training course, but this should look basically the same as the page you're looking at as you're watching this course, and you're looking for a link for the exercise files. In this case, I need to click show all and then click download. And when you do that, it will download the exercise files to the downloads folder on your computer, unless you have set some other default destination for when you download files. So when that's done, we'll need to go to the downloads folder. To do that, we'll go to the Finder icon on the dock and click on that to open a Finder window. Finder is the tool that you use to browse through files and folders on your storage drive. And we're going to use these shortcuts on the left for my documents folder and my downloads folder. If you don't have the shortcuts, you may need to skip ahead in this course to the chapter on working with Finder, to understand how these shortcuts work. For now, I'm going to click on the shortcut to my downloads folder. And when you download the actual exercise files for this course, the folder will have a different name, but it will say something about exercise files. You can double click to open this folder. There will be a folder here simply called exercise files, double click to open that. And here are several sub folders with documents, pictures, and other files you can use for this course. We are going to move these to my documents folder. So I want to select all of them. There are a few different ways to do that, but one option is to go to the edit menu and choose select all. Then I can place my mouse cursor on one of them, hold the mouse button down and drag, and they will all move together and I can drag them to the shortcut for my documents folder and drop them there. And that's where we want our exercise files to be. When we get to the part in this course where we need files, you can open up finder. You can go to this shortcut for the documents folder, and you will find the exercise files there. Of course, you saw a little bit here of the process of working with files in Finder, but that's a topic we'll dig into much deeper later in this course. For now, that's all you need to know to download and use exercise files for any course in macOS.

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