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Is there any type of "Command Modifier" that will allow folder 'merging' on copy?
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Join Date: Jun 2007
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Hi All,
I'm looking for a way to place items in their respective folders even though similar folders exist. Basically a merge. Is there any way to do this?
For instance, say I have the following:
Desktop/Folder1/item1
Desktop/Folder1/item2
Desktop/Folder1/item3
Desktop/Folder2/item1
Desktop/Folder2/item2
. . .and I want to copy a folder with this structure:
Desktop/Folder1/item4
Desktop/Folder1/item5
Desktop/Folder1/item6
Desktop/Folder1/item7
Desktop/Folder2/item3
Desktop/Folder2/item4
Desktop/Folder2/item5
Desktop/Folder2/item6
I don't want the copy to replace the folders, I want it to know how to add the items recursively down the hierarchy. I'd like to do this on the fly -- no rsyncing or anything like that. I considered creating an intricate AppleScript and placing it as a "Folder Action", but quickly decided against that. Any ideas?
Regards!
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Administrator  Join Date: May 2000
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The Installer does what you want, and might be AppleScriptable. It overwrites duplicate files, but not folders. That said, I've never tried to use the Installer to do copying - only installing.
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Yeah, I suppose that would work. Although I could also "tar" it up then untar it to the proper directories. It would be nice if it were just part of the finder. I wonder if something like PathFinder would do the job?
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I can't believe there is not a more simplified solution for this.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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Surely there's some Unix magic that could be applied to this situation, right?
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Well, if I wanted to do that, I suppose I could just write a script and/or use "rsync". I'm just surprised none of the OS guru's thought that that feature would be a useful requested enough freature to incorporate natively.
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rsync would definitely do that. I've done stuff like that before using rsync.
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Administrator Join Date: May 2000
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With a little work, you could code a Contextual Menu Item to do that. Select 2+ folders, select the Merge CM, further select which folder is to be the final one. Or make the CM a little smarter, so the one you pop the menu up on would be the merge folder. It would use rsync in the background to do the work.
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