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And in most cases, those tasks involve files.
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No one ever said, “Go learn how a hierarchical file-system works.” Instead, they learned how to accomplish a specific task-build a spreadsheet, enhance a photo, read email. Ask them to build a spreadsheet in Excel and it’s no problem ask them to locate that Excel file and they’re utterly lost.

It’s as if they missed the first day of a “How to Use Your Mac” class and never caught up with their homework. In my years of using and teaching about the Mac, I’ve run across people who are quite adept in some areas, like using a particular program, but lack some core knowledge about how the computer works.
