Talk:Folder (computing)
I removed the reference to hard linking because it is not possible to hard link directories in traditional unix.
A folder is not a directory,[change source]
like the number of your apartment is not your full address. A directory is a path to a folder. For example c:\AA\BB\ is a directory, but BB is simply a folder. This is a very common misconception. Even in the official Python documentation you can find: "for root, dirs, files in os.walk('python/Lib/email'):", and some programmers may think that directories ("dirs") contain full paths to folders, while they do not. So, the correct version should be: "for root, folders, files in os.walk('python/Lib/email'):". As a programmer, I deal with directories and folders all the time. How is it that my programs work? ;-) 85.193.252.19 (talk) 12:21, 29 April 2021 (UTC)