Chapter(11)

File Management
What is generic file type
• Generic file formats allow you to save files so that they can be opened
on any platform.
• Excel spreadsheet(.xlsx), word processor/documents(.docx),Access
databases(.accdb)are not generic file format.
Generic text files
• Comma separate values: .csv file extension
• Text: .txt file extension
• Rich Text Format: .rtf extension
Generic image files(1/2)
• Graphic interchange format
• .gif file extension
• Store still image or moving image
• Joint Photographic expert group
• .jpg .jpeg file extension
• Store still image only
• Not moving image
• Portable document format
• .pdf file extension
• This is a document that has been converted into an image format
Generic image files(2/2)
• Portable network graphics
• .png file extension
• Compress graphic file without any loss of image quality
• Lossless compression format
• Moving picture experts group layer 4
• .mp4
• It is a multimedia container
• It is used for storing video files, still image, audio files, subtitles.
Generic Audio files
• Moving Picture experts group layer 3
• .mp3 file extension
• It is a compressed file format used for storing audio files.
Generic file used for website authoring
• Cascading style sheet
• .css file extension
• It is a stylesheet attached to one or more webpage
• Hyper text markup language
• .html file extension
• Text-base language which is used to created markup that a web browser will
be able to display information as a web page.
Generic Compressed File
• Roshal archive
• .rar file extension
• This is a container that can hold almost any file types in a compressed format.
• To reduce the number of bytes/file size
• To save storage space
• To reduce transmission time when sent from one device to another.