There are a bunch of "grouping" terms. Folder is common usage on Windows and Mac. Most desktops on Linix/BSD at least use a folder for the icon. Discussion on technical boards are more likely to use directory. Generally from a user prospective you can use the two words interchangeably.
In photography programs you have a bunch of other vocab surfacing, all of it non-standard. Collections Albums Projects Folders In Apple Aperture: A folder can contain other folders, or it can contain a project. All image files have to be in a project. An Album is a virtual construct that under the hood is a link/alias pointing to an image in a project. A smart album is a stored search. You can search within it. Albums I've not used software that included collections, except that I think a trial of Photo Supreme. *** There is no requirement that the organizational structure of what you see is reflected in the file structure underneath. Aperture makes accessing the actual image locations difficult. It takes a lot of extra work to make an image database robust against file browsers moving files around, and changing their names. I've felt for some time there was merit in having some finer grained divisions in organizing photos: I like the idea of project. A wedding. A birthday party. Vacation in Italy. Within a project you may have events: The wedding would have rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, pre wedding, wedding, churchyard, reception. A vacation could be split by days, or cities, Within an event you might have a shoot. This would be all the shots you took without taking the camera away from your face. E.g. the 12 shots of him putting the ring on her finger. The advantage for me for this is the potential to speed keywording, and to find something later. If you knew that Susan spilled wine on her dress in Dresden, then finding the Dresden event just sped your search up. Regards Sherwood On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 at 00:30, Coding Dave <codingd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually there is a concept behind and os' following that concept are > calling the thing folder as an abstraction from the technical directory to > map the real world to the computer world. The concept is called the desktop > metaphor and there even exists the folder metaphor. The idea is whenever > you are sitting on a desktop, then you use the same tools. Whether the > desktop is digital or analog you have a paper trash, the desktop, folders, > notepad, (sticky) notes, calculator, and many other things. > > So I guess talking on a usability level the term finder is used, whereas > on a technical level desktop is the word of choice. > > BTW, Microsoft is doing this, Macintosh is doing this, KDE, Gnome, and > others are doing this... I think this is common these days > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_metaphor > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directory_(computing) > > https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/pull/4074 > > > > Anton Aylward <li...@antonaylward.com> schrieb am Mo., 10. Feb. 2020, > 03:27: > >> On 2020-02-09 7:39 p.m., Аl Воgnеr wrote: >> > BTW, can you explain the difference between folder and directory, for a >> > non-native English speaker I cannot see a difference. >> >> I've always taken it as a the Real Thing(tm) is a 'directory' >> but Microsoft, since they had to have a different nomenclature for just >> about >> everything and alter standards in subtle ways and claim they were right >> and >> everyone else is wrong, called them 'folders' and created icons to match. >> >> Perhaps the best counterpoint is SUN's icon for a directory. >> OK so it looks like your smartphones 'contacts' icon. >> Back then, the popular concept was a 'phone directory'. >> Of which "Yellow pages", another bright concept from SUN, was an example. >> >> >> Of course it was UNIX that was The Real Thing(tm) and predated Microsoft, >> perhaps in the form of Multics, by more than a decade. The original >> MS-DOS, you >> recall, was a flat file system. So was the file system for the original >> Macintosh. >> >> But then if we turn the clock back a bit further, in the older IBM >> mainframe >> world a 'directory' was (and still is) the header of a Data Set that >> listed the >> entries in the that data set. >> >> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idad400/pdsd.htm >> >> >> >> However, in our world: >> >> Linux and other UNIX derivations: DIRECTORY >> Windows and other Microsoft derivations: FOLDER >> >> >> -- >> "Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they >> are >> commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to >> mobilize >> resources and energies of the business for the making of the future." >> -- Peter F. 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