Robocopy exclude directories with wildcard

Solution 1:

I'm sorry, but according to the documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/robocopy:

/xf <FileName>[ ...] Excludes files that match the specified names or paths. Note that FileName can include wildcard characters (* and ?).
/xd <Directory>[ ...] Excludes directories that match the specified names and paths.

So this specifically means that wildcard can be used in the /xf flag but not in the /xd flag.

Solution 2:

You can see the following links and try it may be one work for you as PETER suggested that /xd don't accept wildcards as per documentations it sounds like that but I think nothing is impossible every problem have a solution

U can try it with GUI mode if robocopy GUI or any new version of robocopy or RICH COPY tool alterative command or tool I will try to search it for you more

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/cc160891(v=msdn.10)?redirectedfrom=MSDN

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-magazine/dd547088%28v%3dmsdn.10%29

https://www.gurusquad.com/GSRICHCOPY360?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-srAw8yW6AIVlhePCh2JiwFNEAAYASAAEgJUh_D_BwE

Meanwhile u see the following discussions and advive links for robocopy and try some of them if any work for you

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14511537/how-to-exclude-subdirectories-in-the-destination-while-using-mir-xd-switch-in

https://serverfault.com/questions/304896/wildcard-directory-exclusions-with-robocopy-weird-case

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/3c20df97-b0a3-440b-9170-97d80a54145f/robocopy-wildcard-xd?forum=w7itprogeneral

https://www.winvistatips.com/threads/robocopy-xd-switch-with-wildcards.757807/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53087761/robocopy-xd-ignores-a-list-of-directories

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/1094222a-ddfa-4357-9472-218816a2307c/robocopy-version-xp010-excluding-multiple-directories-using-xd?forum=winserverfiles

Using robocopy and excluding multiple directories

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/514474-robocopy-xd-from-text-file

hope any of link tools references work for you if any worked do tell me in comment which one worked for you if not feel free to ask further queries and if worked then don't forget to vote the answer and accept the answer