What is a root directory?

Question

I know what the root directory is, of course, but it is very difficult for me to explain to people what it is. I wrote a Nintendo DS application that requires the folder to be copied to the root directory of your memory card, and I often receive emails from people who copied them in the wrong place and don’t understand what the root directory is. I do not think that they understand that the root directory can be considered as a directory or "folder".

What is the best way to explain this to people?

Answer 1

Perhaps you could tell them to put it on a memory card, and not in any folder.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

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Answer 6

Make them visualized as one of those Russian dolls, where most of the remaining dolls and one after the other are reduced in size. Like a family tree. The root directory is adam ... as in adam and eve, and the rest are offspring branching outward from Adam, the tallest man on the tree.