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Folder basics

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- [Bryan] Now that we've discussed disks, let's dive one level deeper and talk about Windows folders. Folders otherwise known as directories are also containers that can hold other folders and files. Folders offer a hierarchical organization structure which is thought of as a parent and child relationships. It's also referred to as a tree structure. We use separator characters, usually backslash or forward slash, to build up a path to any given folder or file. And I'll demo that in a minute. Given that we perform tasks with folders and files on a daily basis, our ultimate goal is to get software robots to do the same thing. And I'm happy to tell you that software robots can get a list of folders within a disc or folder. We just need to provide the robot with the right path to the folder that we want it to interact with. And in this example path here, you can see that is begins on a disc with the letter c, then it moves into the users folder, and then a Bryan folder inside the users…

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