copy folders that contain a certain file type

[lennep]

I am trying to create a batch file that will copy only folders containing a particular file type from a source directory to a destination directory. As the files names within these folders are often identical, I need to copy the folders, not just the files, to stop overwriting of copied files.

With my limited knowledge, I cobbled together the following batch file:

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@echo off
cd c:\X
for /d /r %%f in (*) do (
if exist %%f\*.jpg (
ROBOCOPY %%f C:\Y *.jpg *.tif /S 
)
)

Whilst this successfully identifies folders containing .jpg files and copies both .jpg and .tif files to the destination C:\X, the /S option of robocopy doesn't work in this case and only the files are copied, not the containing folder. I am not sure what is causing this to happen. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[foxidrive]

The part you only mentioned to me in a PM is that you want this to be restartable - and only copy sections of the source tree at a time.

That changes the whole task.

You cannot use minage and maxage in robocopy using that method.

[foxidrive]

Run this and it will create c:\x\copyfiles.txt and it assumes you are looking for all three JPG/DCM/TIF files in every folder, and it will only include those folders which contain all three files.

Copy the first line from c:\x\copyfiles.txt and put it in a new batch file called, say docopy.bat, and see if it works - the path it creates needs to be tested but it should create paths like

c:\y\x\original\folder\names\

Essentially you can copy as many lines from the c:\x\copyfiles.txt file as you want in one go, put them in a bat file, and do it in stages.

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@echo off
cd /d "c:\X"
for /d /r %%f in (*) do (
if exist "%%f\*.jpg" if exist "%%f\*.dcm" if exist "%%f\*.tif" (
>>copyfiles.txt echo.@robocopy "%%f" *.jpg *.dcm *.tif "c:\y\%%~pnxf"
)
)