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I still love computer files, even as the world leaves them behind
About 10 years ago, a prominent tech executive confidently informed me that computer files would become obsolete. The exec ...
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You’ll take my personal files from my cold, dead hard drive. Here’s how to save yours
About 10 years ago, a prominent tech executive confidently informed me that computer files would become obsolete. The exec was Bret Taylor, who at the time was building a Microsoft Word ...
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file size
The length of a computer file in bytes. Following are common file types and sizes. See space/time, file and byte. KB=kilobytes MB=megabytes GB=gigabytes TB=terabytes FILE TYPE APPROX. SIZE Text ...
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binary file
A computer file format in which all eight bits of the byte are used for data. Executable software (machine language programs), most word processing, database, spreadsheet and multimedia files are ...