I have a Time Machine backup of my entire system on a hard drive (the system folder and everything else seems to be there). How do I move all of the contents of this directory to another directory? There are files not shown in Finder (/etc, /usr, etc) that cannot be moved, and there are too many to move over manually by Terminal. Thanks for your help.
MacOS – Move contents of one directory to another
macmacossnow leopard
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Best Answer
You can try using something like Unison to sync folder contents and then delete the source directory once it's synced up.