Delete Empty Folders With Remove Empty Directory
Sometimes things that are free are so good, you feel guilty not paying. Take Remove Empty Directory (RED) that I discovered via TechBuzz. This free program finds all the empty folders on your PC and deletes them.
This may not sound very useful as empty folders don’t take up any Hard Drive space, but over time when you add and remove programs or move stuff around, you can get left with a lot of empty folders.
Through the use of wildcards you can make Remove Empty Directory even more powerful. For instance I created a rule to remove folders that only contained Album Art, that were left behind after iTunes deleted or moved the mp3 tracks but left the artwork behind. RED found and removed 600 such folders, making my music collection a lot tidier.
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I’ve been looking for something like this forever. You just saved me a bit of extra googling. Thanks. :]
no worries Rena. RED is one of those little gems that are priceless to people like yu and me!
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sorry, but it has got a lot of BUGs!
some dirs, even if empty, are NOT removed… there are NO REASON, no FILE, no HIDDEN files, only EMPTY dirs … and these dirs are NOT removed… why?
Yes, after running the program I realized that not all empty folders are removed. I used another program with the same concept as RED but that program didn’t delete the folders either. Maybe there’s something wrong with th make-up of the folder?
I foyu used another preogram, can tell me which is ? Otherwise i must write one from zero by my-self..
I can’t quite remember the program, but if you use AHK there’s a script called DelEmpty. Here’s the link.. http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/index.html#DelEmpty
“For instance I created a rule to remove folders that only contained Album Art, that were left behind after iTunes deleted or moved the mp3 tracks but left the artwork behind. ”
How were you able to delete the images associated with the folder but not shown ???