Robocopy older files only

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David J. Myers 5 4 4 bronze badges. Valery Shampal Valery Shampal 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. When no files are copied in a directory, the directory is not created on the destination.

Improve this answer. Rik Rik Thanks a lot for the answer, first of all! This is not a problem - not to copy empty sub-folders. Maybe I did not point my problem correctly. When I use my command line the whole directory folders tree is created on a target disk. Then only "new" files will be copyed into appropriate folders. It means, that most of folders will be empty on the target disk.

Network policy with processing order 2 or above is not getting executed. Skip to main content. Find threads, tags, and users Hello, I ran a robocopy command to copy all the files from one location to another. We did this in preparation to move the data "warehouse" from the old server to a new server because there were a lot of files to copy over. When we are ready make the new server our production server, I want to run another robocopy command to copy over only the new or changed files since the last full copy.

Dear Community, I googled around and tried different things, but somehow I can't comprehend what to do here. But the ". Copy Files from a local folder to a share. Then copy files from the share folder to a temp folder, but only files older than 14 days. Then remove the temp folder. Sorry if this is kind of obvious Kind regards,. You can avoid a bunch of steps by doing it like so. I would just try this first then let us know the result.

Thank you jrp78! That solution worked flawlessly. I'm making a scheduled task and it's done! I think it's because your command is saying move the contents inside the database folder, not the folder itself.