Windows 8 introduces a new feature, which was not available in Windows 7 or earlier. This feature gives you an option, whereby you can prevent or allow the “This destination already contains a folder named” warning dialog box from appearing, when you are moving or copying a folder, with the same name, from one destination to another.

Folder Merge Conflict in Windows 8

To configure or change this option, you will have to open the Folder Options and click on the View tab. Here you will see a new option – Hide folder merge conflicts. This was not present in Windows 7.

By default, Windows 8 has kept this option checked. In this case, the warning box will not be displayed if there is a folder with the same name at the destination too.

Windows 8 will not ask for confirmation if a folder with the same name exists in the destination location as well. By default, the contents of the folder will be  merged into the ‘destination’ folder.

The warning prompts for file conflicts, however will still be displayed, should the folders contain files with the same names.

If you uncheck the option Hide folder merger conflicts, and click Apply, then when you move a folder with the same name into the destination folder, which includes another folder with the same name, then you will get to see a warning dialog box for folder conflicts too.

By offering this option and keeping it pre-checked by default, Windows 8 does away with an unnecessary warning box, and yet provides users the option to change the default, according to his or her preference.