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- [Instructor] As you browse your files and folders, there are previews and important you can get about your files without even opening them. Here in the documents folder, in my exercise files I'm going to go to this client projects folder and I'll open this no obstacles folder where I have a lot of different types of files. Now I could double click a file to open it, but I want to save that for the video where we talk about launching applications for now, let's focus on what information we can get without actually opening a file. Now, first unless you have changed some settings, you'll probably see that each file name ends with a period followed by three or four letters that is known as the extension and the extension identifies what type of file this is. Now, I know that a Docx file is on Microsoft Word document. I know that a PNG file is a picture file. Over time, you will probably learn what some of these extensions mean.…

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