Merging folders in Mac OS X: A solution...

This is not a question, but a solution I discovered.
For unknown reasons, Apple has never adopted one of the basic features in Windows; to allow two folders to merge without deleting any content. Mac geeks may use the terminal, but if you're not a savvy, you're bound to move each file/folder in the content manually. Or use some fishy free app that might or might not work.
The solution lies in FTP.
1. Get a FTP program. Filezilla is free. I use Transmit.
2. Open system preferences, click "Sharing", tic "File sharing" and with that highlighted, click the "Options" button, tic box "Share files and folders with FTP", save and close.
3. Test to make sure it works: create two new folders on your desktop, name them e.g. "1" and "2" or whatever. Put 2-3 files in folder "1".
4. Open your FTP client, enter "localhost" as the FTP address and your username/password and you're in. Navigate to your desktop and in to folder "2".
5. Drag (or upload) folder "1" from the desktop in to folder "2" via the FTP client. Make sure it got there with the files inside.
6. Now, delete all but one of the files in folder "1" at the desktop. Repeat the upload via the FTP client in to folder "2".
7. On the desktop, open folder "1" inside folder "2" and check that no files have been deleted. You should have the same number of files as you had from the start, despite uploading a folder with less.
Hope this works for you.....

If you uncheck it, than your computer will be visible to anyone, but they will not be able to see the files. There is no option to make your computer "invisible" to anyone on a network.
The people who see your computer in Finder will just see the Shared Folder, but they will not be able to access it.
~Christoph

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