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Computer Files
Out of curiosity I would like to know what is classed as 1 File !
e.g If I am viewing Answerbank, is the whole Page classed as 1 File or are the Ads and all the Posts and other bits and pieces classed as separate Files in their own right ?
Have just used CCleaner to clear my browsing History and had 3,724 Internet Explorer Files to delete which seemed rather a lot as have only been viewing about 6 different sites such as Sky News, Sky Sports, Met Office, AB etc.
Not clued up enough abot the ins and outs of Computers to understand what is to many 'Basic' stuff.
e.g If I am viewing Answerbank, is the whole Page classed as 1 File or are the Ads and all the Posts and other bits and pieces classed as separate Files in their own right ?
Have just used CCleaner to clear my browsing History and had 3,724 Internet Explorer Files to delete which seemed rather a lot as have only been viewing about 6 different sites such as Sky News, Sky Sports, Met Office, AB etc.
Not clued up enough abot the ins and outs of Computers to understand what is to many 'Basic' stuff.
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A web page isn't like a Word document (which is just a single file). Instead it's made up of lots of individual components, together with a page of script which tells your PC how to put those components together.
If you go to File> Save Page As (or whatever similar term is used by your particular browser) you can save this web page to somewhere convenient on your computer. (I've just done it, saving it to my Desktop). You'll see one file called 'Question1014028' and one folder called 'Question1014028_files'. That individual file is the one which contains the script for the page. The folder contains all of the individual components. Right-clicking on that folder, and selecting 'Properties', tells me that there are 51 files and 12 other folders in there. Double-clicking will show what all of those files and folders actually are.
Try it for yourself and you'll have a better understanding of how a web page is put together.
Chris
If you go to File> Save Page As (or whatever similar term is used by your particular browser) you can save this web page to somewhere convenient on your computer. (I've just done it, saving it to my Desktop). You'll see one file called 'Question1014028' and one folder called 'Question1014028_files'. That individual file is the one which contains the script for the page. The folder contains all of the individual components. Right-clicking on that folder, and selecting 'Properties', tells me that there are 51 files and 12 other folders in there. Double-clicking will show what all of those files and folders actually are.
Try it for yourself and you'll have a better understanding of how a web page is put together.
Chris
Many web sites like Answerbank, Amazon, the BBC, Sky and so on are made up of many many files (as Buenchico) says.
So there will be text files, image files, video files, sound files, adverts and so on.
And note the EVERYTHING you look at on the internet is downloaded to your PC.
In fact some web sites are put together "on the fly", like the BBC, Sky or Amazon.
So when you look at the BBC or Sky web site it is pulling information from lots of different pages to "build" that one page that you see, and that one page may be made up of dozens of files, each of which is downloaded to your PC.
If you look at the BBC or Sky web site an hour later (when the news has changed) then different (more up to date) information is used to build that page, so the web page is ever changing.
So there will be text files, image files, video files, sound files, adverts and so on.
And note the EVERYTHING you look at on the internet is downloaded to your PC.
In fact some web sites are put together "on the fly", like the BBC, Sky or Amazon.
So when you look at the BBC or Sky web site it is pulling information from lots of different pages to "build" that one page that you see, and that one page may be made up of dozens of files, each of which is downloaded to your PC.
If you look at the BBC or Sky web site an hour later (when the news has changed) then different (more up to date) information is used to build that page, so the web page is ever changing.
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