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Delete Empty Folders With Remove Empty Directory

By on September 3, 2007 in For Your PC, Free Stuff | Comments { 10 }

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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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10 Responses to Delete Empty Folders With Remove Empty Directory

  1. Rena September 3, 2007 at 5:02 pm #

    I’ve been looking for something like this forever. You just saved me a bit of extra googling. Thanks. :]

  2. Tony Williams September 3, 2007 at 5:39 pm #

    no worries Rena. RED is one of those little gems that are priceless to people like yu and me!

  3. realtebo September 24, 2007 at 9:28 am #

    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?

  4. Rena September 24, 2007 at 11:43 am #

    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?

  5. realtebo September 25, 2007 at 8:02 am #

    I foyu used another preogram, can tell me which is ? Otherwise i must write one from zero by my-self..

  6. Rena September 25, 2007 at 11:40 am #

    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

  7. allen November 20, 2008 at 1:12 pm #

    “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 ???

    • Tboekwijt August 26, 2011 at 6:48 pm #

      bump, please answer this Tony!

      • Calvin September 21, 2011 at 3:23 pm #

        go to settings and under “Ignore These Files” insert *.jpg or *.jpeg etc

  8. Jim Green July 28, 2011 at 2:37 am #

    Another tools to remove empty folders,check this  in,
    http://www.filemanagersoft.com

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