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Can't copy folders to external disk drive because....
I have two hard drives, one for OS files the other for data files. For OS files I use Macrium to back up the drive. For data files I copy the contents of the drive onto an external hard drive. I firstly rename the folders on the external drive, e.g. from "Music" to "Music old", then I copy the Music" folder from my PC to the external hard drive. Then I delete "Music old". That's because my external drive has enough capacity for both "Music" and "Music old", and I don't want to wipe the backup disk until I've copied everything over just in case I lost the source data during the backup.
At least, that is what I always used to do until recently.
Recently I've run into a problem. When I try to copy "Music", I now get an error message saying "Music old already exists on whatever external disk, do I want to continue" then have the option of merging or not continuing. I don't want to merge the existing external drive folder, I want to make a second, newer copy of the original folder. And I'm not even copying a folder called "Music old" onto the external drive since the original that I'm backing up is called Music, and on the backup disk I want it to be called Music too. I've tried dragging and dropping, and right clicking, copying and pasting, but no luck. Am I missing an obvious step somewhere, have I misunderstood something really dumb about how to copy folders between drives, or is Windows doing something nasty to me? I should add, there are no hidden folders on the external hard disk.