Robocopy? Copy Directory Structure 1 level

andyMc · 23 Nov 2012

I want copy a list of folders (a few hundred) to a new location. I tried using robocopy but can only get it to either copy the selected folder or all folders with subfolders. What I want is to only copy one level of folders and not the subfolders within.
Example:
C: Drive (the source)

->Clients

->Client 1

->Order1

->More SubFolders

->Order2
->Order3
->Order4

->Client 2

->Order1
->Order2
->Order3
->Order4

->Client 3
->Client 4

So I would want to copy over just the first level of folders (the list of clients), but none of the subfolders within each client folder.

any help would be great.
thanks.

Golden · 23 Nov 2012

Hi,

Try using the /LEV:n switch in your robocopy command.

From robocopy /? at command prompt

Code:

::
:: Copy options :
::
                 /S :: copy Subdirectories, but not empty ones.
                 /E :: copy subdirectories, including Empty ones.
             /LEV:n :: only copy the top n LEVels of the source directory tree.

It should look similar to this:

Code:

robocopy C:\Clients G:\Backup\Clients /LEV:2

Perform some tests to make sure it works OK.

Regards,
Golden

andyMc · 24 Nov 2012

Perfect!
I used

robocopy "C:\Clients" "D:\Clients" /e /LEV:2 /XF "*.*"

without the "/xf [filname]" it was copying over all files as well, I just wanted the folders.
Thanks again!

Golden · 24 Nov 2012

No worries. Glad it worked OK for you.