copy folder w/o files

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does anyone know how to copy folders and paste them
without bring the files that they contain?
every customer has a folder and all the letters go into
their folder for the year. i need to copy the folders
without last years letters (500 folders, 10-50 letters
per folder) i do not want to have to delete the letters

thanx
 
Sorry, you're going to have to delete the old files. But XP can make that
task much easier. Here's how:

1. Copy (do NOT move) all the customer folders to a new folder. Let's call
the new folder 2004.
2. Right-click on the 2004 folder and select Search...

Search will now look only in the 2004 folder.

3. Search for documents with .doc extensions (i.e., search for *.doc)
4. In the results pane, you will see all the letters from all the subfolders
of 2004. Delete them.

The folders are still there, but they are now empty. [This presumes that all
letters were written with Word.]

Now that you have a set of empty folders, you can easily re-use the same
folders every year.

Tom Swift
 
How about this; Create a temp folder, move the contents of the folder in
question to it, then copy the empty folder wherever you want, then move the
contents of the temp folder back to the original folder.

Just a thought,
JAX
 
Why not use a CMD window with the XCOPY command - the switches/options can
be obtained by "XCOPY /?" - I believe what you want would be "XCOPY
C:\OLD_FILES D:\NEW_FILES /T /E"
E - allows all subdirectories to be copied, including empty ones
T - allows the directory structure to be copied, but not the files
 
Use the xcopy command with modifiers /T /E.
You can get to xcopy by going to Run on the Start Menu and typing in CMD
into the box. When the DOS window opens up type Help XCOPY.

Don
 
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