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Originally Posted by ratinox
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.
If it walks like a directory and quacks like a folder, it's probably a duck.
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Mostly they are.
Thunderbird
Email with local storage is an exception. Creating a user account also creates a directory in that email user's directory on the system. But the visible folders don't correspond to that except that they may or may not be in those directories. POP3 accounts can share folders.
By default IMAP is not local, though Thunderbird can make offline copies, and the folders may or may not be real sub-directories on the email server.
So mostly folders = directories for almost all applications and for all sane file managers and normal file systems.