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Copying in OS X Lion 10.7

Hello,

I'm having problems when try to copy multiple files from one location to another that contains some of the files I want to copy. Here si an Example,

If I have 345 files on a folder A and have 412 files in Folder B , in this case I have 87 files that are the same ones in both folders, when I try to copy in OS X 10.6 and below (even OS 9!!) the finder shows a copy warning dialog box with this options "apply to all check box, Don't Replace or Skip and Replace Buttons" but in OS X Lion I have no "Skip nor Don't Replace" Buttons, instead I have a "Keep Both Files" Button and I can't syncronize my files, so I must check file to file to know wich ones are already there, this is important backwards in usabilty because you don't want to replace newer files with old ones just because their name is the same.

Do anyone knows how to solve this? Is there a modify key to get the "Don't Replace" button back in the copy dialog box?

Thanks a lot!

Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 7, 2011 10:35 PM

22 replies

Oct 24, 2011 1:25 AM in response to cameron_photo

This is wonderful, thanks bruised_blood. Pity I just paid for PathFinder for this one feature, but oh well.

Is there a way we can make this the default option without needing to hold the option key?

jedphoto

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Oct 28, 2011 5:54 PM in response to williamfromcarina

Don't need to hold the option key on my computer. So glad this is back!

Ron P.

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Oct 29, 2011 3:22 PM in response to bruised_blood

Skip is hardly the same as Don't replce. Skip skips the copy or move process. We still need Don't Replace.

Nov 8, 2011 6:37 AM in response to Ron P.

skip appears to work identically with "don't replace" for me if I select it. But I get what seems to be inconsitant appearance of it. Dragging a bunch of files, for some of the same named ones I get "skip", for others "keep both". This could be based on file size and or mod date matching (need to test), but if so it doesn't explain why if i re-drag all the files I skipped some of them will now be "keep both" instead of "skip" (but not all). \Repeated drags will eventually get "keep both" for every file. Often I want to keep both for some or all matches, other times skip all - I vote for all "replace, "skip" and "keep both" to all be present for every name dup.

j-hl

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Mar 8, 2012 1:43 PM in response to Terry Reeves

When I drag files from one folder to another and there are duplicates, ¨stop¨ works just like ¨skip¨ or ¨don´t replace¨. In other words, ¨stop¨ doesn´t actually stop the process, it only leaves the duplicates unmoved.

Furthermore, when I use ¨stop¨ the ¨apply to all¨ has no effect, clicking ¨stop¨ is always applied to all.

Is this normal? Is there a way to actually stop the copying if there are duplicates?

Aug 24, 2012 12:52 PM in response to j-hl

Don't count on stop. In my experience it stops when it encounters a duplicate. This can be in the beginning or anywhere else in the sequence of copying. This is your worst option because you don't know what has been copied and what not.

I am not very pleased that in new versions of OS they are hiding perfect good functions under option keys. This copy function is not the first place I encounter this. I hope not this a trend.

Feb 4, 2013 2:44 AM in response to bruised_blood

bruised_blood, thanks a lot.

on dialog box press and hold alt/option

to get skip/ignora

instead of keep both/mantieni entrambi

Copying in OS X Lion 10.7