Copy a group of folders but only 1 subfolder

petebaldwin · 12 Jul 2013

I have a large group of 3000 folders and in them, there are the seletion of subfolders as shown below.

Property 1
-Gas
-Electric
-Asbestos

Property 2
-Gas
-Electric
-Asbestos

etc

I need to create a CD containing all Gas information so I was hoping to find a way of copying the folders so that the root folders, "Property 1", "Property 2" etc are still there but only contain the Gas subfolder.

The only way I know of is to copy the whole thing somewhere else and delete the subfolders I don't want but I don't have the hard drive space - the above list is a simplified version!

Many thanks in advance.

Pete

pcunite · 12 Jul 2013

Since this is a custom thought process, you'll need to script it.

Ztruker · 12 Jul 2013

Are there files in the root directory, i.e. Property 1?

You can try xcopy, it may do what you need. Something like:

xcopy "\Property 1\Gas\*.*" "\targetdirectory" /e

Edit: You could also try robocopy with the /xd <Directory>[ ...] parameter.

/xd excludes directories that match the specified names and paths. That way you could do a full copy and exclude the sub-directories you don't want.

petebaldwin · 18 Jul 2013

Robocopy.... awesome! Did the job perfectly. Many thanks!

Ztruker · 18 Jul 2013

Great, glad it worked. Thanks for letting me know.