Folders are used in all operating systems to organize the structure of information stored in files. Partly correct, in her opinion, the directory structure is created by the OS itself, and partly this task is solved by the user himself. If you decide, for example, to combine two or more folders into one, it will be easy to do this using the system file manager.
Necessary
Windows OS
Instructions
Step 1
Start the Windows file manager program. To do this, the OS has at least a dozen ways, but the simplest is to press the Win and E keys at the same time.
Step 2
Before starting the merge operation, you need to make a choice - the contents of all folders can be placed in a specially created folder or in one of the merged folders. If you choose the first option, go in the "Explorer" to the desired folder and right-click the free space of the right frame of the program. In the pop-up context menu there is a section "New" - open it and select the line "Folder". The file manager will create a new directory, and you type a name for it on the keyboard and press the Enter key.
Step 3
Using the "Explorer" directory tree, go to the first of the folders to be merged, open it and select all the objects contained there - right-click on any of them and press the key combination Ctrl + A. Then apply the "Cut" operation - there is such an item in context menu opened by right-clicking on the selected area. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + X.
Step 4
Return to the created "merging" folder, click its empty internal space with the right mouse button and select "Paste" from the list of commands. This command corresponds to the key combination Ctrl + V. If in the second step you decided to use one of the folders to be merged as a "merging" folder, then do this operation in it. Then repeat the combination of cut and paste operations.
Step 5
Remove empty directories after you finish moving their contents. Please note that if the source folders and the merge folder are located on different physical disks, the cut operation is replaced by Explorer with a copy operation. This means that the contents of these folders that have become unnecessary will remain in the same place - delete it along with the folder covers.
Step 6
If the folders to be merged are in different directories, you can combine them differently. Give both folders the same name, and then drag one of them to the same directory as the other. "Explorer" will ask what to do with the same named files, if such files are encountered during the merging process, click the "Yes" button. If the same names do exist, the file manager will each time offer a choice of three options - replace, rename or skip the file. Choose the action that suits you best.
