Yah, it warns you about replacing DUPLICATE files.  But what they don't mention is that it will REPLACE duplicate folders - in full.  Meaning that if you accidentally copy a Runtime folder with one file in it to your Poser folder, it will ask if you want to replace the duplicate file - and then proceed to delete every single file in the Runtime folder otherwise - all 50,000 of them!!! (yes, I've actually done this once - never again).

That is a pathetic approach - Amiga didn't do it.  DOS didn't do it.  Windows doesn't do it.  Unix doesn't do it.  Why will Apple not learn from everyone else, please?  Not just a switcher problem - it is a paradigm problem.  I'm no newbie to computers, so it came as a shock after my couple decades of computer experience to see how MacOS did its thing here.

I know about kaveman's ditto gui.  It is the only way to do it - but it is a workaround, not a solution.  The solution is to stop pretending that this is normal behavior and fix it (listening, Steve?). ;D

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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