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HC1Gunner
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 Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 9:39 pm Post subject: Copy Folders Only |
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I have a lot of folders/files on my I: drive (mods for a game), but it’s getting full, and I'm about to run out of room. To keep everything sorted and easy to find I have large folder/sub-folder tree structure. I don't want to take the time to transfer all the data over to another drive so my question is this...
Is there a way to just copy (sync) the folders to another location, but just the folders and no data, so I have the folder structure with empty folders? |
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TGRMN Software
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Hi, exclude all files with a file filter
exclude : *
and include all subfolders with a subfolder filter
include: **
Reason:
| Quote: | ViceVersa automatically excludes all subfolders that contain only excluded files. For example, if a subfolder X contains 5 documents, which have file extension .doc, and the profile settings exclude all files with extension .doc , then ViceVersa will exclude the subfolder X too, automatically.
This default behavior can be overridden by adding an include subfolder "**" as the first subfolder filter (double *, without surrounding "). With this special filter, subfolders containing only excluded files will not be excluded.
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HC1Gunner
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 1:13 am Post subject: |
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| Can you please give me an example? |
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Alice
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2018 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Any clearer :
| Code: | | https://www.tgrmn.com/web/forum/viewtopict4839&highlight=.htm |
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HC1Gunner
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| Posted: Thu May 03, 2018 9:20 pm Post subject: Copy Folders Only |
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Once I get the filters set, what method would be used?
1. Synchronization
2. Backup (mirror source to target)
I'm not sure if the syntax is correct or not, I added...
- add an exclude file filters '*' and without * not using the apostrophes.
- add an include sub-folder filters '**', and ** , not using the apostrophes.
I went with option (2) Backup (mirror source to target), but its still copying all the files in folders, and their sub-folders. |
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