"Are you open to a pay solution? I use Syncovery, and it can do exactly what you're saying." Thanks Wraith!
Good to see some many of the Oldtimers are still here. Happy Holidays to ALL! I don’t mind paying for it my Chri$tma$ present to the board will be going out soon as well I assume the mfr. has a demo or trial so I can be certain before buying it can do what is needed. The place I work has got to have some of the WORST people i have ever run across in all my years in IT. Most places would be GLAD to have someone tell the employees how to do what will work and NOT do what won't. I swear they always try what WON'T first in an effort to prove me wrong. They are so bad I don’t even know if I can feel sorry for them Every joke you have EVERY read in a "IT repair manual giving real life examples This is where they com from! A disaster almost occurred the other day because someone could not find the "ANY" key in a new program we just bought. As in press ANY KEY to continue? She stopped evertything to file an Urgent Trouble Ticket an waited for me to get there It took me a couple of minutes to get enough self-control to explain. They thought they had an "outdated keyboard" that was missing important keys. Just like the (now Unlabeled) START on Desktop or the mysterious Windows Key.
I can see it is time for Computer-KLASS -01)
Back to the question though. Just for my own knowledge , I thought this was an exact described example in Robocopy but i cannot find it now so I am glad to know therre IS a way out.
Will let you know you how Syncovery workes out
PS: Update I FINALLY got Robocopy to work :) perfectly at that. I have been told that I can even shorten this but here is the Working Script to create an empty copy of a dir with only all paths
robocopy.exe /R:0 /W:0 "C:\SCRIPTS\A" "C:\SCRIPTS\B" /E /Z /Copy:DT /XF "*.???" /LOG:"C:\SCRIPTS\EMPTY.LOG"
where A is the original folder and B is the exact copy with no files in it
At this stage I alwasy add a pause when trying things i dont know for sure but all ran well and the log said no errors
(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/79.gif)(https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/esmileys/gen3/1Small/79.gif) Merry Christmas!