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In a graphical user interface (GUI), a simulated file folder that holds data, applications and other folders. Folders were introduced on the Xerox Star, then popularized on the Macintosh and later adapted to Windows and Unix. In Unix and Linux, as well as DOS and Windows 3.1, a folder is called a "directory," and a subfolder (folder within a folder) is a "subdirectory." See Win Folder organization.

Windows Folders
Folders on the hard disk are pictured as manila file folders, but they are not fixed in size and can hold as much data as there is room on the entire disk.

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My own opinion is, that however this one-sided horn may really be used by the Narwhale --however that may be --it would certainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Jacquotte, however, was an indefatigable folder of linen, a born rubber and polisher of furniture, and a passionate lover of a perfectly religious and ceremonial cleanliness of the most scrupulous, the most radiant, and most fragrant kind.
The Country Doctor by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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