Windows 10: Show or Hide Folder Merge Conflicts in Windows 10

How to: Show or Hide Folder Merge Conflicts in Windows 10


Information When you copy or move a folder to a destination that already contains a folder with the same name, you can get a folder merge conflict for a Confirm Folder Replace dialog to confirm merging it with the folder at the destination.

Folder merge conflicts are hidden by default in Windows 10.

This tutorial will show you how to show or hide folder merge conflicts to Confirm Folder Replace for your account in Windows 10.



Note Setting to show or hide folder merge conflicts will not affect file merge conflicts like below.




CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Show or Hide Folder Merge Conflicts using Folder Options
• Option Two: To Show or Hide Folder Merge Conflicts using a REG file

EXAMPLE: "Confirm Folder Replace" dialog from folder merge conflict









OPTION ONE [/i] To Show or Hide Folder Merge Conflicts using Folder Options
1. Open Folder Options.

2. Click/tap on the View tab, check (default) or uncheck Hide folder merge conflicts in "Advanced settings" for what you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)









OPTION TWO [/i] To Show or Hide Folder Merge Conflicts using a REG file


Note The downloadable .reg files below will modify the DWORD value in the registry key below.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

HideMergeConflicts DWORD

0 = Show
1 = Hide

1. Do step 2 (show) or step 3 (hide) below for what you would like to do.


2. To Show Folder Merge Conflicts
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Show_folder_merge_conflicts.reg

Download

3. To Hide Folder Merge Conflicts
NOTE: This is the default setting.
A) Click/tap on the Download button below to download the file below, and go to step 4 below.

Hide_folder_merge_conflicts.reg

Download
4. Save the .reg file to your desktop.

5. Double click/tap on the downloaded .reg file to merge it.

6. When prompted, click/tap on Run, Yes (UAC), Yes, and OK to approve the merge.

7. If you like, you can now delete the downloaded .reg file.

That's it,
Shawn


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Folder merge is broken in Windows 10

This is the correct solution.

• Open an Explorer window and click the View tab. Click Folder Options.
• In the Folder Options window, click the View tab.
• Uncheck "Hide folder merge conflicts."
• Click Apply, then OK.

 

Windows 10 - When copying files there is NO "Let me decide for each file" or "Compare information" option when there's a name conflict

Show or Hide Folder Merge Conflicts in Windows 10

 

Unckecking Hide Folder Merge Conflicts Still Doesn't Solve The Problem of Not Being Able To Check For Duplicates

Actually, it worked just fine until today. Every time I copy pasted files and folders, it asked me about duplicates or skip, showing side by side comparison of file name, date, size, in a list. That doesn’t happen anymore, even if I uncheck the “hide folder
merge” option. Tried it many times, applied, restarted, same result: doesn’t give me duplicated comparison, it simply pastes over (doesn’t create duplicates at all)

 

Unckecking Hide Folder Merge Conflicts Still Doesn't Solve The Problem of Not Being Able To Check For Duplicates

Hello Community,

I still cannot find a way to check for duplicates when copying files from Folder A to Folder B. It simply copies everything. I followed the below process with no impact whatsoever:

1. Open Windows Explorer and click on View tab present in the ribbon.

2. Now click on Folder Options icon present at the end of the ribbon toolbar.

3. It'll open Folder Options window. Now go to "View" tab

4. Here you'll see an option "Hide folder merge conflicts". It would be enabled by default. Uncheck the option and apply the changes.

How can I check for duplicates? I'm literally stuck and cannot perform absolutely necessary work.

Please help!

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

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