How do I use Robocopy to exclude ALL subfolders under a chosen folder?

Solution 1:

Excluding subfolders is actually the default behavior of robocopy, or at least the version that comes with Windows 7. (In order to copy the sub-directories you would have to add the /S or /E option to the command.)

So, you can just use robocopy source-folder target-folder.

Solution 2:

I've never done this, so this will be kind of a guess:

/lev:0

Copies only the top N levels of the source directory tree.

/xd *

Excludes directories that match the specified names and paths.

Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145(v=ws.10).aspx

Solution 3:

From the robocopy reference page at ss64.com (which you may wish to bookmark, I have):

1. >/LEV:n : Only copy the top n LEVels of the source tree. (LEV:0 is what you're looking for, it will copy 0 folders down in the tree from the directory where you target it, so only the files in the folder you target.)
2. /XD dirs [dirs]... : eXclude Directories matching given names/paths.
   • also an exclude files switch, /XF file [file]... : eXclude Files matching given names/paths/wildcards. if that's really what you're after.