From the course: macOS Sequoia Essential Training

Using the exercise files - macOS Tutorial

From the course: macOS Sequoia Essential Training

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Using 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 this 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. Now, 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. I'm looking at the course page for an older macOS training course, but this should look the same as the page you're looking at as you're watching this. You may need to scroll down a bit on the page until you see a link for the Exercise Files. You can click where it says Show all, then click this Download button. And that will download the Exercise Files to the Downloads folder on your storage drive, unless you have set some other default destination for when you download files. When that's done, we'll need to go do the Downloads folder on your drive. To go through the folders on my storage drive, we will use Finder. So I can click the Finder icon here in the dock. And this will be a bit of a preview of working in Finder, and we'll learn how to use Finder later in this course. But for now, I'll walk you through the steps for the Exercise Files. And we're going to use the shortcuts on the left for my Documents folder and my Downloads folder. If you do not see these shortcuts, you may need to skip ahead in this course to that chapter on working with Finder to understand how the shortcuts work. But for now, I'll click the shortcut for my Downloads folder. And we can see the Exercise Files that I just downloaded. When you download the actual Exercise Files for this course, this folder might have a different name, but it will be similar. I'll double-click on that folder to open it, and I see this folder called Exercise Files. I'll double-click to open that. And here are several subfolders with documents, pictures, and other files you can use for this course. We're going to move these to my Documents folder using the shortcut for Documents that we have here on the left. Now, I could drag these one at a time, so point at a folder, hold the mouse button down, move over to the shortcut for the Documents folder, and let go. And that folder will move over to the Documents folder. Or you can select several folders at once. Just click on one folder, hold the command key on your keyboard as you click on another and another. Then let go of the command key, and now those are all selected and I can point at one, hold the mouse button down, and they will drag together. And I'll drag those to my Documents folder. And that's where we want our Exercise Files to be. And when we get to the part of this course where we need files, you can open Finder, you can use that shortcut to go to the Documents folder, and you will find the Exercise Files there. Now of course, we worked with Finder a little bit here, but that's a topic we'll dig into much deeper in this course. For now, that's all you need to download and use Exercise Files for any course in macOS.

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