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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

computer

file vs directory
  

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As I understand it, in file management, a directory is a set of files.

  • As I understand it, in file management, a directory is a set of files.
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As I understand it, in file management, a directory is a set of files.
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If you're talking about a directory on a hard disk drive, then you can think of it as a sort of 'container' in which files or/and subdirectories are listed. The maximum size of a directory cannot be greater than that of the partition it is on. Broadly speaking, a graphical representation of a directory is called a 'folder'. Directories can be accessed by typing in paths or by manually browsing to

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