On 2020-09-01 23:11, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:03:27AM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, September 01, 2020 04:29:55 AM to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
[1] Why people keep insisting in calling those things "folders" is
beyond me. They don't "fold" anything, do they?
(My day to make extraneous responses? ;-)
Historical: file folders hold documents in file cabinets...
See my answers to Greg and The Wanderer: I just missed marking my
question as rhethorical. Thanks for the answer, nevertheless :-)
Cheers
- t
"Folder" and "directory" are not interchangable.
A folder is a user interface abstraction and while often referring to a
system directory containing files, might also refer to a collection of
email messages or a list of URLs, for example.
A directory is the actual file system element, as already well explained
by others.
All directories can be represented as folders but not all folders
reference directories.
--
John
