I am quite new to OS X and I just dragged a folder from one Finder window to another and it said that it already existed, and asked me whether I wanted to replace it – and I said yes.
The outcome was strange coming from a Windows background. The two folders originally had the same name and inside the folder there were a number of other folders. Finder seemed to do exactly that: replacing the folder with the one I was copying. It didn't add anything to it.
Is this correct?
Any way around it?
Finder seemed to do exactly that: replacing the folder with the one I was copying. It didn't add anything to it. Is this correct?
If you simply move the folder to its destination, e.g. by dragging and dropping it, you get the standard Replace dialog:
If you click Replace here, you'll end up entirely removing the old folder, replacing it with the new one. True, OS X does what it promises here. This is not what you'd expect coming from Windows, but it's the default OS X behavior.
However, if you copy the folder, e.g. by selecting File » Copy… or CmdC, and then paste it to the destination with CmdV, you get a new option for merging the contents – and this is what you'd usually want to do:
