diff --git a/docs/src/tutorial/run.md b/docs/src/tutorial/run.md
index 6fd96f9..a564a02 100644
--- a/docs/src/tutorial/run.md
+++ b/docs/src/tutorial/run.md
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ In this way, you can detect from inside the pipeline if you are in a profile or
 This is useful if you want to keep the outputs of different profiles separate,
 for instance.
 
+> Profiles work on directories too! If you specify a directory as a target
+> of a profile, Kerblam! will move the whole directory to the new location.
+
 ### File modification times when using profiles
 `make` tracks file creation times to determine if it has to re-run pipelines again.
 This means that if you move files around, like Kerblam! does when it applies
diff --git a/src/commands/run.rs b/src/commands/run.rs
index 80e6ffc..6c36c44 100644
--- a/src/commands/run.rs
+++ b/src/commands/run.rs
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@ use crate::cache::{check_last_profile, delete_last_profile, get_cache};
 use crate::execution::{setup_ctrlc_hook, Executor, FileMover};
 use crate::options::KerblamTomlOptions;
 use crate::options::Pipe;
+use crate::utils::update_timestamps;
 
 use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, Result};
-use filetime::{set_file_mtime, FileTime};
 
 /// Push a bit of a string to the end of this path
 ///
@@ -75,10 +75,16 @@ fn extract_profile_paths(
         .map(|file| {
             let f = &root_dir.join(file);
             log::debug!("Checking if {f:?} exists...");
-            if !f.exists() {
-                bail!("\t- {:?} does not exists!", file)
-            };
-            Ok(())
+            match f.try_exists() {
+                Ok(i) => {
+                    if i {
+                        Ok(())
+                    } else {
+                        bail!("\t - {file:?} does not exist!")
+                    }
+                }
+                Err(e) => bail!("\t- {file:?} - {e:?}"),
+            }
         })
         .filter_map(|x| x.err())
         .collect();
@@ -228,7 +234,7 @@ pub fn kerblam_run_project(
 
             for mover in profile_paths {
                 log::debug!("Touching {:?}", &mover.clone().get_from());
-                set_file_mtime(&mover.get_from(), FileTime::now())?;
+                update_timestamps(&mover.clone().get_from())?
             }
 
             // We are done. We can delete the last profile.
diff --git a/src/execution.rs b/src/execution.rs
index d7d18a9..aa01659 100644
--- a/src/execution.rs
+++ b/src/execution.rs
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
 use std::process::{Child, Command, ExitStatus, Stdio};
 
 use crate::options::KerblamTomlOptions;
+use crate::utils::update_timestamps;
 
 use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, Context, Result};
 use crossbeam_channel::{bounded, Receiver};
 
-use filetime::{set_file_mtime, FileTime};
-
 // TODO: I think we can add all cleanup code to `Drop`, so that a lot of these
 // functions can be simplified a lot.
 // E.g. make a "cleanup: Option<Vec<PathBuf>>" to the Executor and remove
@@ -405,7 +404,7 @@ impl FileMover {
         log::debug!("Moving {:?} to {:?}", self.from, self.to);
         fs::rename(&self.from, &self.to)?;
         if update_time {
-            set_file_mtime(&self.to, FileTime::now())?;
+            update_timestamps(&self.to)?;
         }
 
         Ok(self.invert())
diff --git a/src/utils.rs b/src/utils.rs
index 20dc36a..f00c0a9 100644
--- a/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/utils.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, Result};
+use filetime::{set_file_mtime, FileTime};
 use flate2::Compression;
 use std::env::current_dir;
 use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};
@@ -475,3 +476,24 @@ pub fn gunzip_file(input: impl AsRef<Path>, output: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<
 
     Ok(unzipped)
 }
+
+pub fn update_timestamps(path: &PathBuf) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let mut files_touched = 0;
+    if path.is_file() {
+        files_touched += 1;
+        set_file_mtime(path, FileTime::now())?
+    } else if path.is_dir() {
+        for entry in walkdir::WalkDir::new(path)
+            .follow_links(false)
+            .into_iter()
+            .filter_map(|x| x.ok())
+        {
+            files_touched += 1;
+            if entry.path().is_file() {
+                set_file_mtime(entry.path(), FileTime::now())?;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    log::debug!("Re-touched {files_touched} files.");
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/tests/utils.rs b/tests/utils.rs
index 875b1f3..e34d2cd 100644
--- a/tests/utils.rs
+++ b/tests/utils.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+use filetime::{set_file_mtime, FileTime};
 use similar::{ChangeTag, TextDiff};
 use std::env::set_var;
 use std::fmt::{Debug, Write};