How do I find all the empty folders and delete them.

Anonymous
2011-04-03T17:52:58+00:00

My music has a bunch of folders that are empty but it will take forever to look at every single one.  I want to search by size or someway that will make it easier to find and delete

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Anonymous
2011-05-15T16:05:51+00:00

Hello !

If you do want to delete all the empty folders only ! go to Computer and at the top right click on search. Click on kind and Select folder, now click again on search and click on size, select 0 and click on search.

This should list all the empty folders

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-15T13:47:57+00:00

    For James,

    Under CMD at root c: \

    DIR /AD/B/S | SORT /R > DIR-empty.BAT

    The DIR-empty.BAT file will contain the list of all empty directories

    on the «C» hard disk. This list will be sorted in a reverse order.

    Open this file with a good ASCII editor

    and put every line between « " »

    and add   RD infront of each line

    Then go back to the root and run DIR-empty

    Regards

    Roger

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-09-10T00:32:08+00:00

    I Got Solution From Here. After Long Time Research.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-08-08T22:26:46+00:00

    Ok, so I Went back and downloaded the app, Remove Empty Directories (RED), from SourceForge suggested by Sohail.Khan911 on May 31, 2014.

    It worked great and located the 401 empty folders that File manager could not.

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