I’ve googled it and still don’t really get what a directory is, a folder, an archive, a partition?
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In the non-computing sense, a directory helps you find what you’re looking for. It might be a phone book or a card catalog or a prompt where you spell the name of the person you’re trying to reach on the phone. It literally helps direct you to your destination/phone extension/book/file
Directories on your computer are folders or drawers depending on your system. They have a list of other folders and files that you could access, its this list portion that is really the directory.
Archives and partitions contain directories, but on a windows based system everything that has a list of files in it is a folder or a root directory (C: ) which still acts like a folder with none above it.
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