The Windows installation on my computer is currently spending many hours to accomplish something that should take less than a minute.<\/p>
Most computer storage systems have a sort of thing that some of us know as Logical disk (Sadder still, this move is in preparation for moving the files in question to a different physical device, which will take considerable time no matter which operating system is used.)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Windows installation on my computer is currently spending many hours to accomplish something that should take less than a minute. Most computer storage systems have a sort of thing that some of us know as directory and others know as folder. People speak and tend to think of files as being in these things, […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,4],"tags":[202,399,400,398],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-public","tag-everyday-frustrations","tag-microsoft","tag-operating-systems","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}directory<\/q> and others know as
folder<\/q>. People speak and tend to think of files as being
in<\/q> these things, but actually files are only
in<\/q> these things in much the same sense as a persons<\/em> are
in<\/q> a phone book<\/em>. Hence,
directory<\/q> is at least the less misleading<\/em> term (paper files being
in<\/q> paper folders more as people are
in<\/q> buildings). Directories are usually themselves implemented as files, which then makes it trivial to put directories
in<\/q> other directories.<\/p>
C<\/code> on my computer entirely resides on one physical hard drive. I have a directory on C<\/code> such that I'd like to move<\/q> it from one parent directory on
C<\/code> to another on C<\/code>. What that literally means is that I would like to add a listing for it to another directory, remove a listing from the earlier parent, and change what the moved<\/q> directory lists as its parent. I don't want to relocate the files that it contains to another part of the logical drive; I certainly don't want to relocate them to another physical drive. I don't even want to relocate the directory in question. I just<\/em> want to change which parent directory lists<\/em> the directory in question (and what it lists as its parent directory). So I did a cut-and-paste from one folder to another, something on the order of twelve hours ago. The move is still in-process; the
progress<\/q> bar indicates that it is less than half done<\/em>. The disk drive is in a state of near-continuous activity, and the dialogue box is listing the subcontents of the directory one-by-one.<\/p>