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On many computers, directories are known as folders, or drawers, [1] analogous to a workbench or the traditional office filing cabinet. The name derives from books like a telephone directory that lists the phone numbers of all the people living in a certain area.
Drive mapping over LAN usually uses the SMB protocol on Windows or NFS protocol on UNIX/Linux (however UNIX/Linux do not map devices to drive letters as MS-DOS and Windows do). Drive mapping over the Internet usually uses the WebDAV protocol. WebDAV Drive mapping is supported on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
User profile folders. This folder contains one subfolder for each user that has logged onto the system at least once. In addition, it has two other folders: "Public" and "Default" (hidden). It also has two folder like-items called "Default User" (an NTFS junction point to "Default" folder) and "All Users" (a NTFS symbolic link to "C:\ProgramData").
Also, from a root folder: CD "C:.\Program Files.\Internet Explorer" would be treated the same as CD "C:/Program Files/Internet Explorer" If there is no relative path to the directory name specified with forward slashes you will get the following error: The system cannot find the path specified.
A file path is a string of characters that contains the location of a file in a computer's file structure. [3] [4] That is, it represents the directory nodes visited from the root directory to the file as a list of node names, with the items in the list separated by path separators.
KDE's Dolphin (file manager), demonstrating its implementation of location-based breadcrumb navigation in the "usr", "local" and "etc" folder buttons. The arrows can also be clicked to expand selection. A breadcrumb or breadcrumb trail is a graphical control element used as a navigational aid in user interfaces and on web pages. It allows users ...
When compression is enabled on a folder, any files moved or saved to that folder will be automatically compressed using LZNT1 algorithm (a variant of LZ77). [68] The compression algorithm is designed to support cluster sizes of up to 4 KB; when the cluster size is greater than 4 KB on an NTFS volume, NTFS compression is not available. [ 69 ]
Unix abstracts the nature of this tree hierarchy entirely and in Unix and Unix-like systems the root directory is denoted by the / (slash) sign. Though the root directory is conventionally referred to as /, the directory entry itself has no name – its path is the "empty" part before the initial directory separator character (/).