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Path what is it exactly

If you compare accessing folders and files in a PC to the way you access files in a filing cabinet, it is easier to give a description..

In a filing cabinet, each drawer holds hanging folders.

Within each of these you can have files as well as manila folders that contain files.

__Note :‐__

You canʹt put manila folders inside other manila folders though.

In a PC you have much more flexibility.

For example, one folder can have 10 folders and many files in it.

Each of those can have 10 folders and many files inside it and so on.

You can expand the folder within a folder structure as deep and wide as you want to.

As you navigate through folders to the location of a specific file, you are following a Path.

A Path always begins with the hard drive letter e.g. C:\

Then lists in order the folders you go through to get to the file.

For example, iexplore.exe is the program that opens and runs the Internet Explorer browser.

This program is found in the ʹInternet Explorerʹ folder which is in the ʹProgram Filesʹ folder.

The complete path to iexplore.exe is:‐

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\Iexplore.Exe.

Now that is what is meant by the Path =

Simple really the word says it all it is the path down which you travel to arrive at your goal/destination.