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title: "Replace, keep both or resume file conflicts"
description: "When a file is already there, choose: replace, replace if newer, keep both, skip or resume, for one file or with apply to all."
url: https://anybucket.app/features/conflicts
lang: en
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# Already there? You choose

When a file is already there, you choose: replace, replace if newer, keep both, skip or resume. AnyBucket shows both files' sizes and dates, and you decide, once or for the whole transfer.

[Open the full demo](https://anybucket.app/try?mode=conflicts)

- **Replace if newer:** Only overwrite when the file you're copying is newer than the one already there.
- **Keep both:** The copy is saved beside the original as `name 2.ext`.
- **Resume:** Pick up a partly copied file where it stopped, instead of starting over.
- **Apply to all:** Answer once for every other conflict in the same transfer.

## The keys

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `F5` | Copy the marked files to the other pane |
| `F6` | Move the marked files to the other pane |
| `⌘G` | Copy the marked files to… a place you pick |

[All keyboard shortcuts](https://anybucket.app/shortcuts)

## Questions, answered

### What are all the choices?

Ask, replace, replace if newer, keep both, skip and resume.

### What does apply to all do?

It gives the same answer to every other conflict in that transfer, so a large copy doesn't stop to ask again.

## Guides and help

- [Sync a folder with a server](https://anybucket.app/guides/sync-folder-with-server): Compare a folder on your Mac with one on a server, then mirror it or sync both ways, row by row.
- [Copy files between servers](https://anybucket.app/guides/copy-files-between-servers-mac): Move files from one server to another without downloading and re-uploading them by hand.
- [Troubleshooting](https://anybucket.app/support/troubleshooting): Step-by-step fixes for host keys, SSH keys and jump hosts, FTPS, S3 endpoints, stopped transfers, notifications and the license.

## Keep exploring

- [Transfer queue](https://anybucket.app/features/transfer-queue)
- [Compare & Sync](https://anybucket.app/features/compare-sync)
- [All features](https://anybucket.app/features)

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