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Copying one folder over another of the same name destroys data!
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<blockquote data-quote="rman" data-source="post: 113639" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>Here is what I see. The M$ was was implemented wrong. To me they should have created a merge command. So you would have a copy, replace and merge. In unix you only have to commands cp (copy) and mv (move). Which is causing your problem. I believe what you should be asking Apple is to create a merge option. Since what is happening is what you ask the system to do. You said to replace folder A with another folder A. So the system (unix) removes the old folder A and replaces it with the new folder A, as one would expect it to do. </p><p></p><p>So what you are asking is along the lines of copy all of the contains of the old folder to the new folder, and replacing only the duplicates. Then you would delete the old folder.</p><p></p><p>Unfortunately, you have encountered, the ghost of unix.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rman, post: 113639, member: 23"] Here is what I see. The M$ was was implemented wrong. To me they should have created a merge command. So you would have a copy, replace and merge. In unix you only have to commands cp (copy) and mv (move). Which is causing your problem. I believe what you should be asking Apple is to create a merge option. Since what is happening is what you ask the system to do. You said to replace folder A with another folder A. So the system (unix) removes the old folder A and replaces it with the new folder A, as one would expect it to do. So what you are asking is along the lines of copy all of the contains of the old folder to the new folder, and replacing only the duplicates. Then you would delete the old folder. Unfortunately, you have encountered, the ghost of unix. [/QUOTE]
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