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cra1g321

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Registered: 2011-01-24

Posts: 66

Quick question about Thunar & pcmanfm

I've noticed when copying the contents from one folder to another using thunar or pcmanfm, there's no 'Merge' option, there only a skip or overwrite option.
This is annoying as i don't want to click skip 100's of times because the file is already in the second folder.

Was wanting to know if there's a way to have a merge button like in nautilus but for Thunar or pcmanfm, i was going to install nautilus but gnome-desktop is a dependency, which i don't want as i run openbox.

nrempel

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Registered: 2010-12-27

Posts: 37

Re: Quick question about Thunar & pcmanfm

I use PCManFM and the overwrite option does actually merge the folders.  I have gvfs installed though so I would test it if you don't since there might be different functionality.

cra1g321

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Registered: 2011-01-24

Posts: 66

Re: Quick question about Thunar & pcmanfm

So PCManFM with GVFS for volume mounting, should do it ?

I'll do a install soon and see if it does merge the files rather than overwrite all the existing files.

karabaja4

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 1,001

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Re: Quick question about Thunar & pcmanfm

Try qtfm, it has a merge option, plus many more.