Check for subfolders in a folder

I have a folder called Project and in this folder there are various folders. In these various folder there are subfolders in each folder. But i want to check a particular subfolder called Site_Data in one of the folders and copy the content of this Site_Data folder into another folder I have created called Simulation_Data.

copyfolder = '2_Site_Data';

if(exist([cd C:\DesignTool\Projects, copyfolder]))

disp ('folder is found')

WriteDir = C:\DesignTool\Projects\newProject\Simulation_Data'];

copyfile( copyfolder,WriteDir)

end

But its not working. Can anyone help please

[Adam Danz]

The solution will be similar to the solution from a previous question of yours.

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/449647-how-to-create-a-folder-with-different-names-and-a-subfolder-for-each-folder?s_tid=prof_contriblnk

Please take time to understand why solutions work so you can learn from them and apply the new knowledge to future solutions.

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

Parts that were wrong with your code

• paths are strings; yours did not have quotes
• fullfile() will put together paths from nested folder strings
• The 2nd input to exist() is not required but is recommended to the function knows what to look for.

parent = 'C:\DesignTool\Projects'; 
WriteDir =  'C:\DesignTool\Projects\newProject\Simulation_Data';
copyfolder = '2_Site_Data';
if exist(fullfile(parent, copyfolder), 'dir')
    disp ('folder is found')
    copyfile(copyfolder,WriteDir)
end