Solved Robocopy? Copy Directory Structure 1 level

[andyMc]

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]

Hi,

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

From robocopy /? at command prompt

::
:: 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:

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

Perform some tests to make sure it works OK.

Regards,
Golden

 

[andyMc]

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]

No worries. Glad it worked OK for you.