You can see that we have only one copy of each file from both folders in the merged folder, and the two test text files are the newest version from either folder. Of course, if I’m in Finder and I try to name a folder the same as another one, a dialog tells me that that folder name is already taken: The trick? Both folders need to have the same name. There is a special way to merge folders that doesn’t copy identical files, and always keeps the newer version of files with the same file name. Here’s the trick that I didn’t know about until a few weeks ago. It appears that we either need to manually merge the folders, or click a lot of dialog buttons. Because one of the files in Folder 2 is older than the one in Folder 1, we wouldn’t want that file to replace it. Replace replaces files with identical file names in Folder 1 with files from Folder 2. That would also skip copying the Test1 and Test 2 text files, which are not identical, as they have different time stamps.Ĭlicking Stop interrupts the entire file copy process, which isn’t what I want to do. Alternatively, I could check the Apply to All box, which would skip copying any files with identical names. Immediately, the same dialog would appear for “Keynote-Photo-Collage-2.jpg,” and I’d need to click Skip again. The dialog informing us that a file already exists in the destination folder Skip it?Īt this point, I could click on the Skip button, in which case the duplicate file wouldn’t be copied.
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