How can I copy a folder into another folder?

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Kian Azami 2017-9-26

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评论： Kian Azami 2017-9-27

In my current folder I have created two empty folders, one is "Folder1" and the other is "Folder2" and I want to copy one of these folders to another one by writing code in a matlab script. I used both of these commands:

copyfile('Folder1','Folder2')

copyfile('Folder1','C:\Users\st1azamiki\Desktop\new\Folder2')

But these commands do not copy the Folder1 inside the Folder2. Do not produce an error also. What am I doing wrong? How can I copy a Folder from a particular path to another particular path?

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Jan 2017-9-26

Please post the orignial command. "does not copy the Folder1 inside the Folder2" does not allow to know, what happens instead. Do you get an error message or is the folder copied somewhere else? Without the code and a description what happens, it is hard to suggest an improvement.

Kian Azami 2017-9-27

Hello Jan, Now I have edited my comment and I put the commands that I used and I think it is understandable now. I do not get an error message also, the commands seem to work but it does not copy the Folder1 into Folder2. I think I make a small mistake in doing these commands but I don't know yet.

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Answer 1

Jan 2017-9-27

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编辑：Jan 2017-9-27

在 MATLAB Online 中打开

copyfile('Folder1', 'Folder2') copies the contents of Folder1 into Folder2:

cd(tempdir);
mkdir('Folder1')
mkdir('Folder2')
fid = fopen('Folder1\test.txt', 'w');
fclose(fid);
copyfile('Folder1', 'Folder2')
dir('Folder2')

Now Folder2 contains a copy of test.txt. But you want Folder2 to contain an instance of Folder1. Then do this explicitly:

copyfile('Folder1', 'Folder2\Folder1')

Now the contents of the (empty or non-empty) Folder1 is copied to Folder2\Folder1.

I used relative path names here for compactness. The problem of your command was not the absolute path, but the missing of the name of the destination folder. In productive code a GUI or timer callback can change the current folder, therefore I use absolute path names in every case:

Folder1 = fullfile(tempdir, 'Folder1');
Folder1 = fullfile(tempdir, 'Folder2');
copyfile(Folder1, fullfile(Folder2, 'Folder1'));

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Kian Azami 2017-9-27

Very useful answer Jan, it works properly.

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KL 2017-9-26

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编辑：KL 2017-9-26

在 MATLAB Online 中打开

copyfile 'folder_path/folder_1' 'folder_path/folder_2'

or

copyfile('folder_path/folder_1','folder_path/folder_2')

This simply should work. Get an output of the command and see if you get a logical 1 as answer.

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Kian Azami 2017-9-27

The problem is that it doesn't work. If you can try it by yourself and see the result. It does not take more than 5 minutes. Try to copy an empty folder to another empty folder. And the logical output is 1.

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