where are nautilus visual tutorials?

The following is fairly detailed help for nautilus:

http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/nautilus.html

There are screenshots and visual aid but it is still mostly text. Could you elaborate a bit more on what you are looking for?

I guess my last two msgs. vanished. I've bought a half-dozen books purporting to be for beginners/dummies, but all turn out to be written for Windows/Mac veterans totally conversant with COMPUTERS, and are only needing to know a few tweaks of that experience to use Linux. That is not the case here. I do not know how/when/where to use cut- or copy and paste; to configure; to restore backed up files saved to cd when I installed 8.10 and more etceteras that would fill up ten of these boxes. That's where all "tutorials" miss me. Words like "home" and "desktop" seem to have meanings dependent upon context/use already familiar to the intended customer. I had to spend an hour the other day with a Linkskey tech to just "configure" a router for just one computer and download/print the user manual. I had to download/install Adobe Reader, create folders, extract and a lot of other things I don't understand, remember or could duplicate. For lots of reasons some of us missed the computer "revolution" and are having to try to make up for the last couple of decades. I do not have a business, am uninterested in "entertainment" or twittering. My most immediate needs are to get decades of newspaper articles onto a hard drive and off the floor, to surf, etc. Thanks, Dan.

Hi,

I can understand your frustration with the fact that many help documents assume that you already have a solid grasp of computer terminology and concepts. The documentation for GNOME does attempt to start from the very beginning, starting with explanations of how your mouse and keyboard work and the terminology associated with them. It also explains what a desktop, a home folder, a trash folder, and other essential terminology refers to. You can find that documentation here:

http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/index.html.en

Also, many people have found the official Ubuntu documentation very helpful one they know the basic concepts:

https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/

Further, most programs has a help file if you press the "Help" button at the top of each program.

If you get stuck at any point along the way, feel free to post a question here or on one of the other help venues that exist for Ubuntu (see http://www.ubuntu.com/support/communitysupport).

I would recommend starting with the first link I gave you and reading through the "Basic Skills" and "Desktop Overview" sections. That should give a good base of terminology and concepts with which to understand the many other help resources you will find for Ubuntu.

I hope some of this has helped.

Thanks to both of you for the tips. Those tips will take me a while to go through, so I'll click "Problem Solved" before I've gone through them all, since I think my posts will be "disappeared" within days.

Thanks Sam, that solved my question.

Dan,
your post won't disappear, with signing up to launchpad you've created an account, where all your answers, bug reports and others are stored.
When you left click on your displayed name 'Dan Smith' it will bring up kind of your personal page:
https://answers.launchpad.net/~sentol
You're able to search e.g. with keywords or via dropdown list.
At the bottom you'll find 'Get help with launchpad'.

For any new issue please don't hesitate to ask a new question.
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html