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Copying a duplicate folder

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HyperSlacker

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Please excuse the stupid question here but I come from PC and rarely use macs.

I transfered Music folder from my external hard drive to my mac where I already had the music folder. Upon doing so it asked something along the lines of "Folder already exists would you like to replace" and I chose to replace the folder. In the old folder were a couple of recently downloaded songs from Itunes (bah, I hate Itunes but my gf loves it). Now the songs have "disappeared" from iTunes. She has the computer at school and says spotlight won't find them either. Anyways, when I chose replace a duplicate folder on my PC it will never delete anything in the old folder that doesn't have a dup in the new folder. Is that what this mac did or do I just need to find the files and add them back into iTunes? My guess is the itunes library file is stored in Music folder and it was replaced with the old one that didn't have the new music on it. If someone can confirm that this is the case then I'm sure I can walk her through it on the phone.

Thanks in advance
 
Wow that's weird. You're right, in a PC if you copy a folder over but already have the same named folder on the target drive, everything in the target folder will remain as new items be added to it. I always thought that "you want to replace the folder?" prompt in Windows to be silly because of this.

Even though I know this, I'm still paranoid and would rather open the folder, press CTRL A to select everything, then highlight the target drive and paste. lol

I can't tell you how OSX works as I've no experience with it.
 
Okay I just did a test and it deletes the old folder completely and then copies the new folder over. However it does not put the old stuff in the trash. Anyone have an idea how I could get the old stuff back?
 
For the first time since buying a Mac I'm completely unhappy with the way something works in OS X. In reality it did exactly what it said it was going to do but lets be honest. If its going to blow away the old stuff it should at least put it in the trash so I can unfuxor a mistake. The crappy thing is the old computer was fully backed up and I was just working on getting time machine going on the new computer. Didn't do it before transferring though because I figured I wanted all the files on the first backup..... D'oh
 
HyperSlacker said:
In reality it did exactly what it said it was going to do but lets be honest.
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Haha, thats classic, Sorry i have nothing to add (i'm not bashing apple either)

I just thinks its funny that OSX did exactly as it said it would lol
 
Yeah after years of complaining that op systems don't do what they say they are going to I just took it as a given. Now I don't know what I'm going to do.
 
You should post this in the Apple Product forum. You might get a suggestion or two, like perhaps some Apple-supported file recovery program or their time machine or whatever they call it.
 
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