Merge folders like in Windows?

OSX should ask you whether you want to replace items too. Isn't it doing this for you?

The wording is slightly different for both operating systems, but they act the same to the best of my knowledge (in this respect).

hmm I think that means "Do you want to replace that particular file." Test it out with something unimportant.

The Mac doesn't work the same way as Windows in this respect. I don't know of a way around that, although I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to write an AppleScript to merge two folders.

Gary King is correct... when you take a folder, say a folder of music, and drag it to another music folder to add its contents to the other folder, the dragged folder completely overwrites the destination folder- therefore all files in the destination folder are no longer there.

As far as I know, there's no "merging" option like in Windows (my MacBook Pro is my first Mac, so I completely understand your dilemma, it annoys me as well...)
But I think it's just a feature of Unix-style OSes... you have to go inside, copy the contents, then go inside the other folder and paste them.

If you're comfortable with the Terminal, then the command "cp -R" appears to have content merging behavior.

Merging folders... sucks on a mac

Trying to install some Eclipse plugins on a mac, which involves merging folders together in the eclipse application root. It seems absurd to me that you can't merge folders with the Mac OSX GUI and you have to resort to using a linux cp command. Though it woks fine, how come the dialog box gives you a 'replace' option but not a 'merge'. How hard could that be to add to the interface? Not hard at all I imagine!

Obewong said:

you have to resort to using a linux cp command.

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It's not a "Linux command". cp was around long before Linux.
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I think you mean Unix.

Anyway, I agree that it would be nice to have a GUI way to merge folders. Former (and concurrent) Windows users could easily lose data. I accidentally lost something this way once and had to go back to the customer (embarrassed) to ask him to send his files again.

Actually, I think it'll work. Just try to drag the contents of one folder into the other folder... However, it if contains subfolders, they will be either replaced or not, depending on your choice, but not merged.

Pit

Eh so Finder doesnt merge folders? And I have to use terminal?
So much for 'just works'