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Today, again, I'm faced with troubles merging folders on the mac. But this time I don't want to discuss / try to solve the issue with finder.

So, just wondering once more, anyone have a good software out there, to recursively copy files from one folder to another without killing the destination?

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rsync -avz --ignore-existing src dest
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
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    One might consider using cdto to open the terminal cd'ed to the current folder - http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24105/%3E-cd-to-... – slhck Nov 02 '10 at 09:45
  • I did say **mac**, not **nix*. There are many distinctive advantages of having a GUI other than being pretty. Being able to analyze through integration (hear a song, see a video, read a text), individually select different actions on bulk operations such as this (pause, continue, delete just this one, hold that for later) and actually facilitating making progress, saving states to continue another day, just to name a few. – cregox Nov 02 '10 at 18:38
  • @Cawas: Those operations do not come for free; someone has to write the software to do that. On the other hand, rsync has already been written, and it works fine on OS X. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Nov 02 '10 at 18:43
  • not asking for free. and thanks for your attention! ;) – cregox Nov 02 '10 at 21:06
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I use SyncTwoFolders and I've never had a problem with it. Just be sure you have the options configured the way you want them before you start or you could unintentionally lose data.

There is also FileSync which I have less experience with, you can also accomplish the same thing using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!.

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  • SyncTwoFolders seems perfect! Also, there is Unison: http://superuser.com/questions/117621/how-to-merge-and-not-replace-folders-when-copying-on-mac/207296#207296 – cregox Nov 13 '10 at 19:42
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Does Mac OS X's "ditto" solve this problem?

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/ditto.1.html

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