On 2020-09-01 23:11, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Tue, Sep 01, 2020 at 10:03:27AM -0400, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:On Tuesday, September 01, 2020 04:29:55 AM tomas@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