Question: Q: Question: Q: alias, duplicate? What is the difference between and alias and a duplicate? Reply I have this question too 35 I have this question too Me too 35 Me too.
Question marked as Solved User profile for user: gumsie gumsie. View answer in context. Helpful answers Drop Down menu. Paul says:. May 12, at pm. May 30, at pm. Stella says:. July 21, at pm. March 12, at am. March 13, at am. March 15, at am. Simon D Kemp says:. March 11, at pm. Felix says:. March 11, at am. John says:. Ol says:. Among these millions of files, your Mac may contain many duplicate files, and there are two types of duplicates: intentional duplicates and accidental duplicates.
Intentional duplicates may be different versions of the same file, or multiple backups of your files. For example, I download a full backup of my website regularly, and one of my external drives holds these backups. Most of the files have the same name in each backup, but these are technically not duplicates, since some of the more recent files are different from the older ones.
The same thing is true with a Time Machine backup. It contains copies of all your files backed up many times. You may have downloaded some files and moved them to an external drive, but not deleted them from your Downloads folder. Just select a file in the Finder, right-click it, and choose Duplicate from the pop-up menu.
Your Mac appends copy to the duplicate's file name. For example, the duplicate of a file named MyFile is named MyFile copy. Information in this article applies to Macs running macOS Catalina It also applies to OS Leopard That works fine when you want to duplicate a file in the same folder as the original, but what if you want to copy the file to another folder on the same drive? When you need a copy in another location, make use of the Finder's copy and paste capabilities.
As is the case with most things involving the Mac, there's more than one way to duplicate a file or folder. You can use the familiar copy and paste process to create a duplicate.
In the Finder, select the folder in the sidebar that contains the item you want to duplicate. Right-click or Control-click the file or folder you want to duplicate in the main Finder window. A pop-up menu appears that includes a menu item named Copy "[Selected File Name]. Navigate to any location in the Finder—the same folder, another folder, or a different drive. After you select a location, right-click or Control-click to bring up the Finder's contextual menu and select Paste Item in the menu.
Make this task easier by picking an empty area in the Finder when you bring up the contextual menu. If you are in List view, you may find it easier to change to icon view to find an empty area within the current view.
The file or folder you previously selected is copied to the new location. If the new location doesn't have a file or folder with the same name, the pasted item has the same name as the original.
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