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Folders

The names of all of the files on a disk are stored in a list called the directory. Displaying the directory of a disk shows the names of the files on the disk. In addition to simply listing files, the Windows directory system allows you to group files into folders.

Grouping disk files into folders may be likened to grouping documents into file folders in a filing cabinet.

Windows permits subfolders inside folders. Your images of a particular kind of sample could, for example, be stored in a subfolder of the registered image directory.

Subfolders are named just like files (although subfolder names can have extensions, they usually don't). Your PCI/CFR files could be stored in a folder called CFRImages and your images of insects in a subfolder of CFRImages called INSECTS. The main folder on the disk from which all others branch is called the root directory but is not referred to by the system with a name.