Windows 8 tip: Restore the merge-folders option

May 07, 2013

Clear this box to restore the merge-conflict dialog. Recently I told you how to take advantage of Windows 8's cool new file-copy feature. What I didn't mention was a small, but potentially significant, change in the way Windows 8 handles certain folder-copy functions. Specifically, when you copy a folder to a drive or other destination that already has a folder with the same name, Windows 8 will automatically merge their contents. That's a change from the way Windows 7 handled things, which was to alert you to the duplicate folder with a dialog box offering options: Yes (to go ahead and merge), Skip (to skip the folder being copied), and Cancel. As noted by Lifehacker, automatically merging the contents of two like-named folders is probably fine in most instances, but it could cause unintended problems. You might end up overwriting old files with newer ones, or merging two folders you'd wanted to keep separate. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2038064/windows-8-tip-restore-the-merge-folders-option.html#tk.rss_howto