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How to Delete a Practice Folder and Bring It Back on a Mac

Also available for: Windows 11

What you need: A Mac. You will create the empty folder used in this exercise.

Before you begin: This exercise creates an empty folder, deletes it, then immediately brings it back using Undo.

  1. Click Finder (the blue smiling face) in the Dock, the row of app icons along the edge of the screen.
  2. In the menu bar at the top of the screen, click Go, then Downloads.
  3. Click File at the top of the screen, then New Folder. A new empty folder appears with its name highlighted.
  4. Press the Return key to keep the name the Mac supplied. Remember that name, including any number at the end.
  5. With the new folder still selected, click File, then Move to Trash. If a message says it will be deleted immediately or permanently, click Cancel and stop.
  6. Wait for the folder to disappear from Downloads.
  7. Without making any other file changes, click Edit at the top of the screen, then click the first menu item, which begins with Undo.
  8. Find your folder again in the Downloads window.

Expected result: The empty practice folder is back in Downloads.

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