Merging folders when copying & pasting in Finder I've recently switched from Windows 7. One Windows feature that I'm missing is the possibility to merge folders (the German version of Windows is calling this "integrate") when copying &amp; pasting them. 

The merge feature works like this: if you paste a folder into a location that already contains a folder of that name, you get the option to merge the content of both folders. The files from the new folder will be pasted into the existing one; on conflicts, you get a choice what to do.



Finder doesn't seem to support this: the only choice I get is to overwrite the older folder with the new one (with no explanation of what exactly this does), or stop the process.

Is there a way to merge folders in Finder? Am I overlooking something?
Because of a lot of complaints of people used to the Windows way, merging folders is now a feature in OSX Lion :



This merge dialog will only show up if:


destination folder isn't empty
destination folder contents are different from to be copied one


So the way to merge folders in an officially supported way is to upgrade to Lion :-)