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What's up with Merge Folders? When i move a folder into a directory with a similarly named folder Lion is supposed to prompt me to replace or merge..
i'm only seeing replace!
Lion-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.7)
Same for me. I was looking forward to this feature so I could finally combine two folders with extensive file collections. And it turns out to be a red herring.
Doesn't ask me too! 😟
Turns out the merge folders option is called "Keep Both" and you'll only see it when you copy a directory, not move. slightly dissapointing, but better than nothing. When you're working with a file (instead of a directory) the option appears for both copy and move, the merged file gets a number appended to its name.
Wow! Thanks a lot!!🙂😁
Drag and drop doesn't function, BUT
If you copy the folder (cmd+c) and then move it with cmd+alt+v (cut and paste) then your asked to replace or keep both 🙂
This seems rather stupid. I don't want to copy millions if not billions of bytes to achieve this. I want to move and merge, and it may ask what to do when inside the duplicate folder it finds other items that share one name. Way to go!
Nothing is worse than replacing files with other files when this was clearly not the intention, since the replaced files are more or less lost forever.
EDIT:
hmm I'm not sure but now it only works with copy and paste 😟. Maybe I did it wrong with cut and paste but now it doesn't ask me.
keep both gives me two copies. I just want to mirror folders not create a monster file with 2 copies of everything in it. I want my skip option back! Or at least a drag and drop merge.
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