Notice also when I copy instead of the word Copy appearing here, ironically, I get a number instead. So now when I do it it seems to be doing the same thing but instead of files being moved out of Folder B, Folder B is going to remain untouched. That gives me that little green Plus indicator there saying it's going to make a Copy of everything. Now an alternative is instead of just dragging and dropping into Folder A I hold the Option Key down. If I use Keep Both it means for every document that has the same name the one that's being moved would move there but with a new name, the word Copy being after the original name. If I selected Replace then it would replace all documents that have the same name with the ones I'm moving. Only new documents would be copied in there. So, for instance, if I hold the Option Key down and go Skip then it would keep all of the existing documents of the same name in that folder. If I check this that means whatever I select here for everything else that's going to be copied it's just going to apply that. The version that's sitting there in the folder would stay. So in this case it would be the opposite of Replace. If I hold the Option Key down, notice Keep Both changes to Skip. Or I can Replace which means that the one I'm moving replaces the one that was originally in the folder. I could Stop which cancels all future actions. The options I have are to keep both which would take the one I'm moving and apply the word Copy to it. In this case it's going to tell me that Document 1 already exists. Then we're going to get a hit with this dialogue here. Simply drag them to Folder A and drop them in. I'm going to use Shift Click to select the range. Now one pretty straight forward way to do this is to select all of the files in Folder B. I should get Document 1, which is the same between both, then the newer version of Document 2, the newer version of Document 3, and then both documents 4 & 5 in the final folder. So the idea is I want to merge these two. Folder B has a Document 5 that's not in Folder A. Folder A has a Document 4 that's not in Folder B. There's an older version here and in Folder B there's the newer version. You could see the older version is here in Folder B. Document 2 in Folder A is a newer version. ![]() They both have identical Document 1's and you could see here, I have the Preview Pane turned on so you can see what's inside. Here I've got inside of one folder two folders. So I'm going to use List View to demonstrate what's going on. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Today let me show you how to merge two folders on your Mac. One of the best-spent five bucks I've dropped into the App Store.Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. It's fast, configurable, and gets the job done. It let me quickly identify the files that were missing or mismatched. Two days ago, I used VisualDiffer to compare half a dozen pairs of folders containing hundreds of images each. ![]() It required a bit of prep to get human-readable results-export each file as IDML, unzip each package-but with that done, I was able to diff the folders and then the mismatched XML files within them, to find the exact characters within a 300-page book that had been changed. Just now, for instance, I used it to figure out the difference between two versions of an InDesign document. Now that I have it, I use it probably every other day. ![]() There are some things that annoy me about the interface on this app-such as that I often have to open the help file to remind myself what all the color coding means hover tips would be a nice addition-but overall it's exactly what I was looking for when I set out to find a file- and folder-diffing app.
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