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Garnick

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Jul 19, 2012
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Hello all,

I have recently upgraded from 10.5.8 to 10.7 and a Mac Pro and I have a question concerning the 'Paste' options in Lion. This may have been part of Snow Leoprd as well, but although I also have SN installed on and external drive I've had little experience with it. I've noticed that depending on the type of information I have copied there are a couple of different options when pasting. If I am updating a file or folder the paste dialog will sometimes show 'Replace All' or 'Keep Newer', and of course 'Stop'. Then there's the 'Merge' option occasionally. I will soon be updating some files/folders from an older 'Work' drive to my new internal 'Work' drive and would like to know exactly what these terminologies mean. I'm hoping that somehow the OS is able to scan the destination drive and only paste newer files and/or versions, perhaps with the 'Merge' option. If anyone can provide the exact meaning of the 'Keep Newer' and "Merge' options it would be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to search this out, both in 'Help' and on Google, but with no success. I've also done a coiuple of test runs but haven't been able to determine yet how it's working.

Thanks in advance for any replies.
 
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