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Will recover entire folder delete newly introduced files?

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Hello, This is probably a stupid question. In my case, I am trying to recover an entire folder A. The back up of folder A and the current state of folder A has some discrepancies. Namely a new file read me.txt was added into the folder A after the backup, thus this readme only exist in the current state of folder A, not the back up. Now if I perform an in-place recovery of the entire folder A to the original location, will the recovered folder A at its final state contains the newly introduced readme file? If this is the case, was this behavior by design? I am wondering how I can perform a “clean” recovery which will discard any new files in the folder A and simply put the old version back to its place. Is this possible? Thank you!

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If you recover the folder to the original location it will merge the contents with those already there  

If you want a clean recovery then rename the current folder first then recover the folder to the original location.