Working With Directories

Quick Index

What Is A Directory?
Directories In File Browser
Directory Tree
Adding Directories
Directory And File References

A computer directory (folder) contains computer files and may contain sub-directories. Directories form a tree on your computer system.

Directories In File Browser

Below we are showing a directories in a file browser. We are viewing the "Drill1" directory. The full path to this directory is:

 "C:\Work\Courses\Practice\Drill1"

. The browser also shows us that the "Drill1" directory has three sub-directories: Add, Multiply and Subtract

Directory Tree

The schematic figure below shows us the directory tree (for the directories shown in the previous section). It shows us the parent and sub-directory relationships.

\---Work
    \---Courses
        \---Practice
            \---Drill1
                \---Add
                \---Multiply
                \---Subtract

A few relationships from the tree above:

The directory Courses is a sub-directory of directory Work and it follows that Work is the parent directory of Courses
The directory Drill1 has three sub-directories (Add, Multiply and Subtract)
The directoriesAdd, Multiply and Subtract each have the parent directory Drill1
etc

Adding Directories

We'll often be adding directories (folders) to organize our files.

Adding a Directory:

Directory And File References

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