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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Exactly. A manila folder icon. Which is where the name folder came from even. A folder is inside of a program for storage such as your email program.A directory is created in the filesystem.
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I can't speak to your email program but mine does not have folders. It
displays IMAP folders which are constructs within Dovecot which is my IMAP server. Each of these IMAP folder constructs is... a directory on the filesystem. So for my email program, folders and directories are the same thing.
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For example, on a Windows computer, Windows is a directory, not a folder.
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If by "Windows is a directory" you mean "C:\Windows"? When I type "dir C:\" in a command shell I see C:\Windows as a line of text. When I open File Explorer I see C:\Windows as a manilla folder icon. When I look inside these visual representations I see the same files. Again, looks to me like folders and directories are the same thing.
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Not Windows the OS, Windows the directory. Windows & Users are two directories every Windows computer has.
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What I just wrote about C:\Windows applies fully to C:\Users.
If it walks like a directory and quacks like a folder, it's probably a duck.