From typing "help xcopy" at the command line: /D:m-d-y Copies files changed on or after the specified date. If no date is given, copies only those files whose source time is newer than the destination time. So you already are using xcopy to only replace old files with new ones. If that's not happening, you may have to swap the positions of the /i and /d switches.
Type XCOPY/? at the Command prompt, hit enter and read the help information on the command. Or better yet, try it with ROBOCOPY/? which superseded XCOPY way back when Windows Vista came out!
The essential difference between the two commands is that when you provide the path of a folder to copy, only the files in that folder will be copied to the specified destination. Providing the path of a folder to xcopy will copy the folder itself along with its contents (subject to flags used with the command) to the specified destination.
From the XCOPY documentation: /d [:mm-dd-yyyy] : Copies source files changed on or after the specified date only. If you do not include a mm-dd-yyyy value, xcopy copies all Source files that are newer than existing Destination files. This command-line option allows you to update files that have changed. So, with your example, it should read:
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