what is a directory
Directory. A directory is a location for storing files on your computer. Directories are found in a hierarchical file system, such as DOS, OS/2, Unix, etc. When referring to a directory, a user commonly indicates the name of the directory.owever, a directory and folder are synonymous. Below is an example of what a directory path would look like in MS-DOS. In the above example, C: is the drive letter and the current directory is System32, which is a subdirectory of the Windows directory.