Editing Computer file (section)

==File systems and file managers==
The way a computer organizes, names, stores and manipulates files is globally referred to as its ''[[file system]].'' Most computers have at least one file system. Some computers allow the use of several different file systems. For instance, on newer MS Windows computers, the older FAT-type file systems of [[MS-DOS]] and old versions of Windows are supported, in addition to the [[NTFS]] file system that is the normal file system for recent versions of Windows. Each system has its own advantages and disadvantages. Standard FAT allows only eight-character file names (plus a three-character extension) with no spaces, for example, whereas NTFS allows much longer names that can contain spaces. You can call a file "{{Mono|Payroll records}}" in NTFS, but in FAT you would be restricted to something like {{Mono|payroll.dat}} (unless you were using [[File Allocation Table#Long file names|VFAT]], a FAT extension allowing long file names).

[[File manager]] programs are utility programs that allow users to manipulate files directly. They allow you to move, create, delete and rename files and folders, although they do not actually allow you to read the contents of a file or store information in it. Every computer system provides at least one file-manager program for its native file system. For example, [[File Explorer]] (formerly Windows Explorer) is commonly used in Microsoft Windows operating systems, and [[GNOME_Files|Nautilus]] is common under several distributions of Linux.