copy subfolders two levels down

I want to copy all 2 level down subfolders and their entire contents into another folder, preserving everything, structure etc. but only from a certain date of file / folders forward

e.g. I have

…108600**

I want to exclude “…108600*” and move all “…108600**” elsewhere

ChatGPT’s suggestion doesn’t work, not quite ready to take over some jobs 🙂

xcopy "C:SourceFolder**" "C:DestinationFolder" /E /I

The above throws this error:

File not found - *
0 File(s) copied

Probably the same reason this fails as well (also from ChatGPT :), can’t see the error message if any, nor does any copying occur:

    @echo off
    set source="...108600"
    set destination="..._temp"
    for /d %%i in ("%source%**") do (
        xcopy "%%i" "%destination%" /E /I
    )
pause

I believe ChatGPT understood my question since it gives me this answer bundled for mac/linux:

find /path/to/source -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -type d -exec cp -r {} /path/to/destination/ ;

however I need it on Windows and no clue whether that’s suppose to work at all, but “-mindepth 2” sounds like what I’m looking for

I had trouble googling anything to fix this (which is why ChatGPT failed as well I guess).

If I use robocopy’s /lev:7 (paths are 7 levels deep), it copies from the directories from source as well, and that accomplishes nothing, plus I need xcopy’s /d:17-1-2025 flag (files and folders changed since that date), not robocopy’s /MAXAGE:1 which produces the wrong result for some reason as well. Unlike xcopy, robocopy’s help seems ambiguous and confusing to me

Closest I came is with this:

for /D %%A in ("...108600*") do (
  for /D %%B in ("%%~fA*") do (
    xcopy /e /i /d:01-17-2025 "%%~fB*.*" "..._temp" 
  )
)
pause

source, comments on: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32129482/copy-files-from-first-level-subfolder-only-to-another-location

however xcopy’s date flag failed too and instead it copies (almost) everything, so it’s a double failure at that alone…

Any suggestions? Just curious at this point 😀 I seem to remember having other software that did it but can’t find it again if it ever existed. Thank you