I tried to overwrite an existing directory by moving a directory with the same name in that location. This fails with a message that the directory already exists or that it cannot overwrite existing directories. How can I over-ride this. The directory I am moving has many subdirectories and I do not want to delete the existing directory because I'm not replacing everything just a subset of its contents. It would literally take hours to replace files individually. I have tried it from the commandline as root with "mv -f" and "mv --force" and from a konqueror window (administrator mode) in KDE3 and get the same result. Anyone have any idea whats going on and how I can over-ride it. Would be very grateful. TIA Eddie -- Be different, say something nice.