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Questions about deleting user folder and another about trash bin
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<blockquote data-quote="herkalees" data-source="post: 192078" data-attributes="member: 15101"><p>One last question (unrelated). I'm sure there is a command which will allow me to take the contents of one folder and compare it to the contents of another, and then only move what the first folder has into the second.</p><p></p><p>For instance:</p><p>- Folder1 has the following in it: red.jpg, blue.jpg, yellow.jpg, green.jpg</p><p>- Folder2 has the following in it: blue.jpg, green.jpg</p><p></p><p>How can I make the computer look at the contents of each, determine that Folder2 has some, but not all of the same files, and have it copy those which is doesn't have over?</p><p></p><p>I'm actually looking to do this on a 10gb folder of MP3's, but the above makes it easy to consider. I have about 10gb of MP3s on my external backup drive, and when copying them ALL over to my mac, it had a small error (just now actually) and only got some of them over.</p><p></p><p>Is it easier to just 'select all, copy, paste' and choose 'yes' to overwriting the files which already exist? I assume that will just take forever, which is why I asked about some sort of 'compare' command which might exist.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="herkalees, post: 192078, member: 15101"] One last question (unrelated). I'm sure there is a command which will allow me to take the contents of one folder and compare it to the contents of another, and then only move what the first folder has into the second. For instance: - Folder1 has the following in it: red.jpg, blue.jpg, yellow.jpg, green.jpg - Folder2 has the following in it: blue.jpg, green.jpg How can I make the computer look at the contents of each, determine that Folder2 has some, but not all of the same files, and have it copy those which is doesn't have over? I'm actually looking to do this on a 10gb folder of MP3's, but the above makes it easy to consider. I have about 10gb of MP3s on my external backup drive, and when copying them ALL over to my mac, it had a small error (just now actually) and only got some of them over. Is it easier to just 'select all, copy, paste' and choose 'yes' to overwriting the files which already exist? I assume that will just take forever, which is why I asked about some sort of 'compare' command which might exist. Thanks again! [/QUOTE]
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