A file is the common storage unit in a computer, and all programs and data are "written" into a file and "read" from a file. A folder holds one or more files, and a folder can be empty until it is ...

WTF?! To readers of this site, the idea that some students on courses ranging from engineering to physics don't know what files and folders are might seem strange, but it's true. According to a ...

Strange as it may seem to older generations of computer users ... astrophysicist teaching an engineering course, has started using her PC's search function to find files in the same way her ...

The '532 patent, "Method and apparatus for automatic organization for computer files," describes little more than a system of sorting files into folders. That alone would be enough to make it the ...