{"id":16,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=16"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"dont-overwrite-existing-folders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"Don&#039;t overwrite existing folders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows and BeOS have very different behaviors when copying a folder to a location that already contains a folder of the same name. Both systems will offer a &#8222;Replace?&#8220; dialog, but saying yes to this dialog in Windows will cause all new files to be added to the existing folder, while BeOS will <b>overwrite<\/b> the entire folder.<br \/>\nFor example, if you drag a folder called &#8222;config&#8220; into your home folder and say yes to the &#8222;Replace?&#8220; dialog, you will wipe out your entire ~\/config directory, which would be bad. R5 will allegedly include a number of more sophisticated options for handling this scenario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows and BeOS have very different behaviors when copying a folder to a location that already contains a folder of the same name. Both systems will offer a &#8222;Replace?&#8220; dialog, but saying yes to this dialog in Windows will cause all new files to be added to the existing folder, while BeOS will overwrite the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-warnings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}