foldersmacosmerge
When trying to drag various items into a folder in Finder in OS X and some of the items have the same name, OS X will ask if you wish to replace the items in the folder you are dragging to.
However if you wish to merge the files from the first folder to the second folder:
How do you accomplish this ?
Because of a lot of complaints of people used to the Windows way, merging folders is now a feature in OSX Lion :
This merge dialog will only show up if:
So the way to merge folders in an officially supported way is to upgrade to Lion :-)
It wont work in Mac OS if there are sub folders with the same name.
I use Deltawalker for merging folders.
Best Answer
If the folders are the same name, drag one to the location of the other, and BEFORE releasing the mouse or trackpad, hold down the
Optionkey. You will be presented with three options, one of which is to Merge.