Question

I want to be able to replicate only the folder structure (not the contents) from one location to another in c# 3.5

for example
C:\Some Folder
   + Folder A
     + Sub Folder A
     + Sub Folder B
       + Sub Folder B1
       + Sub Folder B2
   + Sub Folder C

To New Location
C:\Some New folder
   + Folder A
     + Sub Folder A
etc… etc..

Answer 1

Do you mean you want to create the same files, but not the contents within the same structure.

Something like this might work:

public static TotallyNotRecursiveAndCreateDirs(string root, string newRoot)
    {
        DirectoryInfo rootDir = new DirectoryInfo(Path.GetPathRoot(root)); 
        DirectoryInfo[] dirs = rootDir.GetDirectories("*", SearchOption.AllDirectories);

        foreach(DirectoryInfo dir in dirs)
        {
            Directory.CreateDirectory(dir.FullName.Replace(root, newRoot));
            FileInfo[] files = dir.GetFiles("*.*", SearchOption.TopDirectoryOnly);
            foreach(FileInfo file in files)
            {
                File.Create(file.FullName.Replace(root, newRoot));
            }
        }
    }

You might also want to do some exception checking to ensure that the root and the newRoot parameters are valid (ie: rooted, etc…)

If you don’t want the files and just the directories, then just remove the second loop.