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peor

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 12, 2013
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Hello everyone. I am about to get a first Mac(Book Pro).

Last time I was playing around in Finder a little bit with Copy Paste to replace a same name file.

Since I am a Windows user I am used to that a dialog box besides asks Are you sure you want to replace this file also shows the sizes of both files and the dates when they were last modified.

Is there any way to see that in OSX?
 

msjones

macrumors 6502
Oct 18, 2007
429
4
Nottinghamshire, UK
This is what you get in OS X 10.8.2 when you to try to overwrite a file:

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I dont think there is a way to display file information such as size, modification date when overwriting. Unless there is a 3rd party add on someone knows about?
 

DJLC

macrumors 6502a
Jul 17, 2005
959
404
North Carolina
^ This is true. That said, the phrasing in the dialog pictured above DOES change. Sometimes it will say, "A newer item named..." or "An older item named..."
 
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