update..I changed to use file:copy:recursive.. here is the code which works just fine. 
use File::Copy::Recursive; 
use File::Find;
use strict;

my $srcdir='c:\\inetpub\\performancetesting\\output\\new\\';
my $destdir='c:\\';
File::Copy::Recursive::dircopy $srcdir, $destdir or die "Copy failed: 
+$!";

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as part of a project I am working on I need to copy part of a directory tree to the root, this is to move files being processed by something else so that I can load them into a db. unfortunately its not working out yet, all i get is my warning can't open the file yet for each folder what stupid mistake am I making this time 
 
use File::Copy;

my $dir="c:\\inetpub\\performancetesting\\output\\new\\mlx\\";
my $dir2="c:\\";
lista_dirs($dir,$dir);
sub lista_dirs{
my ($dir,$dirname)=@_;
my (@dirs,@files);

opendir DIR, "$dir";
my @dircontent=grep {/[^\.]/} readdir(DIR);
closedir DIR;

@dirs=();
@files=();

foreach(@dircontent){
if (-d "$dir/".$_){
  push @dirs,$_;
  copy($dir,$dir2);
  }
  else {
  push @files,$_ if($_=~/\.txt$/);
  }
}

foreach my $d(@dirs){
 lista_dirs("$dir/".$d,$d);
 print $d,"\n" ;
 #print $dir; prints full path?
 
}
}# not sure if this is going to work or not. 




opendir(IN,"$dir") or die "opening directory failed:$!";
while (defined (my $file = readdir(IN)) ) {
push (my @files, $file);

foreach my $filename (@files)
{
copy ("$dir".$filename, "$dir2".$filename) or warn "Can't open the fil
+e yet $filename\n:$!";
  }
}
 
closedir(IN);

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In reply to attempt to copy files and directories to new location by grashoper

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