Open terminal and use Unix. for example, cp works.
craigburton
· 3 months ago
Excellent idea. Now I just need to figure out how to traverse and address the Mac filesystem in bash. So far, anything with a space in it is ignored.
ndw
· 3 months ago
You need to either quote the filename: "this works", or escape the space: this\ works\ too.
As far as the semantics though, I don't think I agree with you. If I drag file "a" from somewhere onto file "a" somewhere else, the new replaces the old. Sounds like Finder does the same thing with folders, which strikes me as consistent. Not that I've ever used drag-and-drop to move a file in my life on any platform.
craigburton
· 2 months ago
On any platform except the Macintosh, If you drag a folder "a" from one location to a folder named "a" in another location the system will combine the contents of a' with a''. On the Macintosh, a' will delete a'' and all of its contents.
The syntax you indicated does indeed work.
janm
· 3 months ago
Zsh and tab completion works for me and deals with the escaping just fine. As also noted, you can use the normal shell escaping rules manually; that should work with any shell, even bash!
I'm coming up to six months since my move to Mac; the first thing I did was set terminal up to start on login. There are many interesting commands on the Mac you don't find elsewhere. The most relevant is "open". Type "open /path/to/file" and you get the equivalent effect of double clicking the file in Finder.
SD
· 2 months ago
On Windows 2000 Server, if the directories a' and a'' each have files within, named b' and b'' respectively, and you drag a' into the directory containing a'', b'' will be replaced by b'. File c' from a' and d'' from a'' will both be in the merged folder, but b'' is gone. Oops. To be fair, it warns you you're about to make a mess.
Acne Scar Treatmnt
· 2 months ago
It sucks very often. These are only few things that is really annoying. But there is so much more with have been hidden under shiny logo :)
Nike shoes !
· 2 months ago
The Stuffit approach requires that your files be zipped or stuffed. When you expand the compressed archive, Stuffit will manage the merge and collisions normally.
air union
· 1 month ago
Wow, I really think that is an annoying (and potentially catastrophic) functionality. I move/copy files by drag-and-drop fairly often in Windows, so this would be very difficult for me to get used to if I moved to a Mac. Wish I knew some Unix commands. I'd be much more comfortable with Macs if I did.
Remote Access Software
· 1 month ago
It sure does suck at times..and sometimes its disheartening..
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As far as the semantics though, I don't think I agree with you. If I drag file "a" from somewhere onto file "a" somewhere else, the new replaces the old. Sounds like Finder does the same thing with folders, which strikes me as consistent. Not that I've ever used drag-and-drop to move a file in my life on any platform.
The syntax you indicated does indeed work.
I'm coming up to six months since my move to Mac; the first thing I did was set terminal up to start on login. There are many interesting commands on the Mac you don't find elsewhere. The most relevant is "open". Type "open /path/to/file" and you get the equivalent effect of double clicking the file in Finder.