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katanna

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May 6, 2004
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I have searched the web for this answer. I came up with lots of answers for "how to merge two folders together" (such as use "Big Mean Folder Machine"), but I can't find an answer to my question.

I have two series of folders that have the same files in them, but often one version of the file has been updated while the other has not. I need a way to merge these folders, but I only want to keep the newest version of any given file name.

For example:
Folder A:
File 1 (old)
File 2 (old)
File 3 (new)

Folder B:
File 1 (new)
File 2 (old)
File 3 (old)

I want an easy way to merge that to:
Folder C:
File 1 (from Folder B)
File 2
File 3 (from Folder A)

Is there any way of doing this?

Matthew
 
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