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View Poll Results: What do you call them?
Directories 57 82.61%
Folders 8 11.59%
File-thingy 1 1.45%
Huh? 3 4.35%
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Old 12-20-2003, 02:18 AM   #1
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New pointless war - Folder vs. Directory

Okay, I'm an old timer (DOS 3.2 days). In the "old" days, we knew them as directories. Now, the popular term seems to be folders. I beleive this was adopted from apple, but I can't be sure, because I've rarely touched one. Anyway, the GNOME/KDE and emacs/vi wars have lost steam, so why not start another ridiculous battle? Choose your weapon, grasshopper!
 
Old 12-20-2003, 03:42 AM   #2
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Directory!

Directory!

Directory!
 
Old 12-20-2003, 05:13 AM   #3
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Definetely directory
 
Old 12-20-2003, 05:27 AM   #4
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Directory, although I use folder occasionally when talking to my Windows-centric friends and family.
 
Old 12-20-2003, 05:37 AM   #5
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Same as johnleemk - use folders when talking to less techy people.
 
Old 12-20-2003, 07:57 AM   #6
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Directory
 
Old 12-20-2003, 08:00 AM   #7
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folders are IN your desk, directories are ON your desk
 
Old 12-20-2003, 09:26 AM   #8
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It is directory! That's why in Linux and Windows you must do a "CD" to change directory

Yay

Peace,
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Old 12-20-2003, 09:35 AM   #9
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Directory.
 
Old 12-20-2003, 10:24 AM   #10
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Depends I sometiimes call them folder, directory or even file-thingie!
 
Old 12-20-2003, 11:00 AM   #11
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strictly directory...
 
Old 12-20-2003, 11:44 AM   #12
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I know it should be directory, but folder is easier and shorter to type and say, so I usually just say folder, or sometime just "dir"
 
Old 12-20-2003, 11:54 AM   #13
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Ive always used directory because I thought a folder was just the gui term for a directory so of course its DIRECTORY!!
 
Old 12-20-2003, 03:43 PM   #14
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Folder! Directory is dmoz.org
 
Old 12-20-2003, 03:51 PM   #15
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Directory. 'Folder' is a dumb desktop metaphor. Like Wynd, I say/type 'dir' a lot, though.

The whole desktop-metaphor thing is weird. Backgrounds or root window graphics for your GUI makes sense. Who puts *wall*paper on their (vertical) desk*top*, anyway?

The thing is, Whitehat, most people who think of directories as 'folders' don't actually type 'cd' much so they aren't aware of that discrepancy.
 
  


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