Copying the skeleton of folders?

[Syringer]

I have a folder with about 50 directories and 10gb of file in there--but all I want is a backup of just the folder structure without any files in there..is there an easy way to do that?

Only way I can think of now is to dupe the folder, do a search for *.* of the folder..and then manually delete all non-folder files, but since it's a large folder it takes a while, so would there be a way to only do the folders?

 

[MrChad]

Robocopy can do this I believe

 

[Gooberlx2]

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/05/07/robocopy-syntax-command-line-switches-and-examples/

something like:

robocopy x:\source y:\dest /e /xf *.*

edit: just tested this out and it worked exactly as desired. Copied a ~1000 folder directory tree, but no files. Took 26 seconds.

 

[MrChad]

I think the /CREATE switch would also work

 

[Gooberlx2]

I think the /CREATE switch would also work

But it also writes zero length files, essentially as place-holders. Not sure if that's what the OP was looking for.

 

[ForumMaster]

just use xcopy. i believe the attribute /t copies the folder structure. built into windows.
run xcopy /?.

 

[Syringer]

Yup xcopy worked perfectly..

xcopy folder1 folder2 /t /e

the /e part copies all empty folders too