Topic: Moving Folders

[irneb]

why not use a file manager (FAR or alike)?

X2 for that one! It's like the old Norton Commander on steroids! On Linux I use Krusader ... much the same (only more of a GUI instead of text).

But methinks the OP's problem is he's got a set of folders like this:

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X:\Project1
X:\Project1\Archive
X:\Project2
X:\Project2\Archive
X:\Project2\Area1
X:\Project2\Area1\Archive
X:\Project2\Area2
X:\Project2\Area3
X:\Project2\Area3\ArchiveAnd then he wants to move those folders to another drive, yet keep all the same paths:

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Z:\Project1\Archive
Z:\Project2\Archive
Z:\Project2\Area1\Archive
Z:\Project2\Area3\ArchiveOmitting any paths which don't have Archive somewhere in their list of folders.

So it needs something which recreates full paths - just leaving the parent folders empty. And only moves the Archive folder (with its contents and subfolders) to the new drive.

IMO this sounds like a job for a bat/cmd script or as others have pointed out RoboCopy can do this for you.

What I'm a bit concerned about is the mention of path-names being too long. The above won't fix any of that.

[cmwade77]

This is exactly the type of scenario that ROBOCOPY was designed for.

x2

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Robocopy.exe "H:\Projects\Small Jobs\Archived" "T:\Projects\Small Jobs\Archived" /E /V /NP /Z /R:0 /W:0 /XD "*Archive"
k.

Wouldn't this exclude any directories that have the word Archive within them?

But I think that pointed me in the right direction, I believe what I actually want is:

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Robocopy.exe "\\befilesvr01\H Drive\Projects" "\\jtongson-pc\ARCHIVE2011\H Drive\Projects" archive* /move /E /NP /Z /R:0 /W:0