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Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by paulmd on Monday July 26, 2021 @12:45PM (#27961674)
that's the pretty standard behavior on unix. Unless the window manager goes out of its way to override it, mv'ing a folder to a place where one already exists will replace the old folder with the new one.

You can go out of your way to do it manually with rsync and similar tools, of course, but by default you're moving directory pointers around, not merging trees.

Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by willis936 on Monday July 26, 2021 @02:41PM (#27963442)
How many Unix graphical OS distributions are there even, let alone how many are installed?

Nautilus, the default file manager of GNOME (and by extension Debian and its children such as Ubuntu) handles recursive merge. This isn't an issue on Linux.

It's obviously bad design to have something as high level as a file manager be a glorified 2D wrapper of 2 command line tools.

Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by a1369209993 on Monday July 26, 2021 @07:28PM (#27966786)
> that's the pretty standard behavior on unix.

Not even slightly:

  $ mkdir 1 2
  $ touch 1/foo 1/bar 2/baz 2/quux
  $ mv -T 2 1
  mv: overwrite '1'? y
  mv: cannot move '2' to '1': Directory not empty
  $ mv --force -T 2 1
  mv: cannot move '2' to '1': Directory not empty
Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by CyberShadow on Monday July 26, 2021 @03:04PM (#27963811)
The window manager manages windows. It has nothing to do with the filesystem or how it's presented to the user.
Re:Windows Defender blocks qBittorrent by Arnavion on Monday July 26, 2021 @04:34PM (#27965090)
They meant "window file manager", ie graphical file manager.