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Folder
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Directory
|    | 12 | 42.86% | |
Files kept in Carrots
|    | 6 | 21.43% |
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07-12-2011, 10:27 AM
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I am old DOS guy so I still call the thing that holds a bunch of files a directory as opposed to a folder. Anyone still call it a directory? Or am I just out-dated? |
07-12-2011, 10:44 AM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | OK, I'm an IT nerd as well.  It depends on my audience.
Non-IT: Folder
IT: Directory
There it is.  |
07-12-2011, 10:46 AM
|  | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | | I go back and forth. And Swedish has two words that match those ("katalog" and "mapp") along with folder being perfectly acceptable.
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07-12-2011, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by MonetBass OK, I'm an IT nerd as well. It depends on my audience.
Non-IT: Folder
IT: Directory
There it is. | This. |
07-12-2011, 10:53 AM
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Originally Posted by jive1 I am old DOS guy so I still call the thing that holds a bunch of files a directory as opposed to a folder. Anyone still call it a directory? Or am I just out-dated? | Is this a thinly vieled Fassanova'esque attempt to show how "old school" you are?
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07-12-2011, 10:56 AM
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07-12-2011, 10:58 AM
| | Working on successful. Got the first syllable... | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Huddinge, Sweden | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Latimour Is this a thinly vieled Fassanova'esque attempt to show how "old school" you are? | Ha! I'm old enough to have used the USER command in CP/M. That would be a great way to confuse people and feel superior! 
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07-12-2011, 10:59 AM
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Originally Posted by MonetBass OK, I'm an IT nerd as well. It depends on my audience.
Non-IT: Folder
IT: Directory
There it is. | ^ +2
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07-12-2011, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Mark Latimour Is this a thinly vieled Fassanova'esque attempt to show how "old school" you are? | Nope. Just because I might talk about using DOS, or knowing what 'sys 64738' means, or working with a 8.5 inch floppy, programming on a green monochrome 40 column monitor, programming a crappy video game in assembler, or pining for a TRS-80 back in the day, should not constitute me bragging about being old school. I don't see why anyone whould think that. |
07-12-2011, 11:53 AM
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07-12-2011, 12:29 PM
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07-12-2011, 02:34 PM
| | | | Directory works for all operating systems. I believe folder only has widespread use with Windows.
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07-12-2011, 02:42 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | If it contains multiple files I'd call it a folder.
If it contained multiple folders (like on our networked drive) I'd call it a directory.
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07-12-2011, 05:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: QLD, Australia | | | If I am directing a filepath, saving something or whatever to a certain place, I call it a directory.
If its a thing on the desktop I put a heap of **** in, its a folder.
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07-12-2011, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by jive1 I am old DOS guy so I still call the thing that holds a bunch of files a directory as opposed to a folder. Anyone still call it a directory? Or am I just out-dated? | I pre-date even DOS with CPM if you don't count mainframes.
I remember when there were two kinds of DOS.
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07-16-2011, 01:15 AM
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07-16-2011, 01:36 AM
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07-16-2011, 02:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Millcreek Township, UT | | | If I'm talking about Windows, it's a "folder." If I'm talking about Linux/Unix, then it's a "directory."
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07-16-2011, 02:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Close enough to San Fran | | | HHaving only ever used windows, I will acknowledge what someone means when they say directory, but have never called it that myself, though I might now cause it seems so fancy and techy.
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07-16-2011, 06:31 AM
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