XCOPY files in batch to another folder but with structure of folders

Question

I am trying to get the following done.

Let's say I have a directory stucture like this

C:\photos\all\abc\def\001.jpg
C:\photos\all\abc\def\002.jpg
C:\photos\all\abc\def\003.jpg
C:\photos\all\xyz\111.jpg
C:\photos\all\xyz\222.jpg
etc.

I want to use XCOPY to copy certain files to another base directory, but I want to keep the structure of the folders. So, for example I want to copy 3 files from the example above to another disk.

D:\newphotos\abc\def\001.jpg
D:\newphotos\abc\def\002.jpg
D:\newphotos\xyz\111.jpg

How can I achieve this?

I tried the following but none seems to do what I want (i ran those from C:\photos\all)

XCOPY "abc\def\001.jpg" "D:\newphotos\abc\def\001.jpg" (keeps asking if it is a file or folder)

XCOPY "abc\def\001.jpg" "D:\newphotos\" (doesn't create the target folder structure)

XCOPY /S "abc\def\001.jpg" "D:\newphotos\" (doesn't create the target folder structure)

Answer 1

Ah, finally found it. Putting an asterisk * behind the filename will do the trick. So, for any of you with the same problem:

XCOPY "abc\def\001.jpg" "D:\newphotos\abc\def\001.jpg*"

This does the trick.