Finder - Copy and ignore duplicate?

Just click on skip and check the 'do this for all,' OOPS.

forgot you're on OS X.

 

Your choice is Overwrite.

Now, what you're asking for is a feature Windows 7 does and does very well. Mac OS does not.

 

Oi. Actually this is a feature that Snow Leopard did just fine. Lion promised to do it better, and instead we get this. I'm very confused.

Under Snow Leopard, if I copied files labeled A.jpg through Z.jpg into a folder that contained C, J, M, and Q .jpg, I would be asked what to do when it got to C, and I would have an option to skip it, and then I would be asked again at J, etc. In Windows it would do the same, and would do it even for files within folders at the top level of the dragged set.

When Lion was announced and promoted, it was stated that it would gain the Windows-style functionality, with the ability to merge folders all the way down. Instead, we are greeted by the polar opposite: an Abort, Retry, Fail? style process that belongs back before 1984.