I am trying to organise som of my sample drives etc. Does anyone know of an app that will copy a folder structure without copying folder content or subfolders? I know there is an app called TreeCopy but I think that includes all sub folders etc too. I can delete the subfolders if need be, but was just wondering.

 

TreeCopy
http://external.informer.com/rjlsoftware.com/contact.shtml

 

https://github.com/mifeet/DirStructureCopy

I makes dummy files & folders. Obviously, it also does the subfolders.

 

Can't remember if TreeCopy duplicates the subfolders but here's a way to do no subfolders without any additional software
I've linked a .bat that can recreate the folder structure here.
Create a folder on your desktop and unpack the .bat file there.

Hold shift and Right-click the folder containing the folders you want to duplicate and select "Open command window here"
type: dir /b > file.txt
You should have a file named file.txt which contains a list of all the folders inside whatever folder you right clicked.
place the file.txt next to the .bat and run it.

This isn't complicated. Explaining it is just long-winded

*I forgot: xcopy command does the same thing but includes the sub-folders.
in Command Prompt: xcopy source target /t
replace source with the folder path being duplicated
replace target with the destination path for duplicated folders

 

Last edited: Mar 28, 2017

If ur on a mac. Tidy up will be ur new best friend for sample organization.

Folders, dupes, file type separation, etc

 

Link Shell Extension can likely do what you want. I use it a lot for organizing my sample libraries, and making networked data appear local so my projects find everything ok.
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/linkshellextension.html

Right-click on any folders or files, select "pick link source", go to the location you want them to appear, right-click, "drop as"-> "symbolic link".

 

Last edited: Mar 26, 2017

I didn't know you needed symlinks. The method I gave just makes new folders named like the old ones with no kind of reference to the original.

 

DiskCatalogMaker

 

Using Mac Terminal:

1. Cd to the source folder where your folder structure that you want to replicate resides
2. find . -type d |sed "s/.*/mkdir \\\"&\\\"/" >makedirs.txt
3. Cd to the destination folder and copy or move the file "makedirs" there
4. sh makedirs.txt

This will re-create the folder structure without any files.

If you only want to create the first, topmost level of folders:
find . -type d |awk -F"/" "{ print \$2 }" |sort -u |sed "s/.*/mkdir \\\"&\\\"/" >makedirs.txt
Then, like above, run "sh makedirs.txt" in the destination folder.

Open makedirs.txt with a text editor to make sure it does what you want, or to erase or add lines to your liking.

 

Last edited: Mar 26, 2017

use rsync. If on mac its in the command line. If on windows, install free mobaXterm

 

Tidy up let's u save symlinks too.

 

Richcopy

 

I don't. No idea where the idea of symlinks came from

 

This nearly worked. Created the file.txt fine with list of directory in there. However, when running the .bat file, it seems to create the directory of folders as I wanted but only takes the first word of each folder name. I assume the .bat needs a minor tweak?

 

I do use LinkShellExtension myself to move bulky things to external drives but make them appear on the C: drive.

However, it won't really work for this. I essentially currently have sample libraries organised into library company folders. I want to essentially put these company folder into genre specific folders. Rather than creating folder by folder, I just wanted to recreate the 'company' folder names and have them blank so I can duplicate into each genre folder, if that makes sense.

 

Oops. Here.

 

This one worked. Fab stuff! Cheers @Pinkman

 

On a similar theme, and rather than start a new thread on it, anybody know of a way to delete folders that have no files or subfolders within them easily without having to go through them one by one?