folderful

English

Etymology

From folder +‎ -ful.

Noun

folderful (plural folderfuls or foldersful)

All of the documents, papers, notes, etc. that are contained in a folder.
- 1980, Robert Taylor, Burchenal Green, Tales of the marvelous machine: 35 stories of computing, page 208:
  Ben Gordon slid the folderful of pamphlets on the Philosopher's Stone across his desk to Josef.
- 1990, Datamation - Volume 36, Issues 1-8, page 61:
  Each of Shearson's business units generates a folderful of documentation a day: hundreds of journal entries, order tickets, wire transfers, cash sheets and other items.
- 2007, Jon Barbuti, Learning to Teach with a Hangover, →ISBN, page 153:
  On the primary course, you create whole folderfuls of these paper-fillers, each individual task being incredibly straightforward but also annoyingly time-consuming.
- 2010, Michael Buerk -, The Road Taken, →ISBN, page 98:
  The whole point of local radio was to involve the community, to be its village hall, its notice board, its next-door neighbour — we had foldersful of corporation cliches about all this.
All of the electronic files contained in a folder or directory.
- 1995, Craig Stinson, Running Microsoft Windows 95:
  Control Panel provides a folderful of essential property sheets and helpful wizards.
- 2006, Sharon Zardetto Aker, Real World Mac OS X Fonts, →ISBN:
  This Mac OS X capability to open a folderful of documents when a folder is selected in an Open dialog can be pretty scary when, from years of habit, you select a folder and hit the Open button to open the folder to look inside, and—whoops!
- 2008, Andy Kirkpatrick, Psychovertical, →ISBN, page 117:
  I deleted all the other versions from my computer, dozens of foldersful, the result of nearly two years' work.