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However, if I hold the Option Key down when I do this indicating I want to Copy this is what happens. It's going to say, do I want to Replace the old folder or not. I'm trying to move a folder into a location where there is already a folder with that name. However, if I were to drag to the folder above, right here, now there's a conflict. Now if I were to just drag and drop Folder A into Folder A it just puts one folder inside the other. I'm going to rename Folder B inside this folder, Folder A. It's just going to be a temporary folder. So what I want to do is I want to create a new folder and I'm going to call this Temp. If I try to name this one Folder A it's going to give me an error. To do that you need to have Folders that have the same name. You can't go and say I want to use the newer or older one.Д«ut there is one way to force it to always accept the newer version of the file. So you could either say I want to use all the ones being moved in when there is a conflict or all of the existing ones when there is a conflict. It just looks at them as files that are originally in the folder and files that are the ones moved in. Using Apply To All doesn't really care which one is newer and which one is older. So you either have to look in each and every match and determine yourself which one to Replace, which one to Skip which is going to be difficult and it's going to be easy to make mistakes. I won't tell you which is newer and which is older when you select several files. Or if I drag this one here it's going to say an older item exists. Notice, on the other hand, if I select one file here, like this one, and I drag it, it's going to actually say a newer item already exists. You have to go through each file meticulously and know which one is the newer version. The problem with doing this is that it is hard to just have the newer versions survive during this type of merge.

Notice also when I copy instead of the word Copy appearing here, ironically, I get a number instead. So now when I do it it seems to be doing the same thing but instead of files being moved out of Folder B, Folder B is going to remain untouched.

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That gives me that little green Plus indicator there saying it's going to make a Copy of everything. Now an alternative is instead of just dragging and dropping into Folder A I hold the Option Key down. If I use Keep Both it means for every document that has the same name the one that's being moved would move there but with a new name, the word Copy being after the original name. If I selected Replace then it would replace all documents that have the same name with the ones I'm moving. Only new documents would be copied in there. So, for instance, if I hold the Option Key down and go Skip then it would keep all of the existing documents of the same name in that folder. If I check this that means whatever I select here for everything else that's going to be copied it's just going to apply that. The version that's sitting there in the folder would stay. So in this case it would be the opposite of Replace. If I hold the Option Key down, notice Keep Both changes to Skip. Or I can Replace which means that the one I'm moving replaces the one that was originally in the folder. I could Stop which cancels all future actions. The options I have are to keep both which would take the one I'm moving and apply the word Copy to it. In this case it's going to tell me that Document 1 already exists. Then we're going to get a hit with this dialogue here. Simply drag them to Folder A and drop them in. I'm going to use Shift Click to select the range. Now one pretty straight forward way to do this is to select all of the files in Folder B. I should get Document 1, which is the same between both, then the newer version of Document 2, the newer version of Document 3, and then both documents 4 & 5 in the final folder. So the idea is I want to merge these two. Folder B has a Document 5 that's not in Folder A. Folder A has a Document 4 that's not in Folder B. There's an older version here and in Folder B there's the newer version. You could see the older version is here in Folder B. Document 2 in Folder A is a newer version. They both have identical Document 1's and you could see here, I have the Preview Pane turned on so you can see what's inside. Here I've got inside of one folder two folders. So I'm going to use List View to demonstrate what's going on. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters.

#How to create mail merge on mac how to#

Today let me show you how to merge two folders on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.

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