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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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-12T14:21:59+00:00

    With regards to the music folder, I found that the album covers were creating a hidden jpg file. I could not get Windows 10, nor "Remove Empty Directories", to detect an empty folder because of that hidden jpg. I added "*.jpg" to the list of files to ignore in "Remove Empty Directories" and it found all the empty folders in my Music folder. I was finally able to remove all of the empty folders.

    This may also work in explorer by showing hidden files before searching for empty folders.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-12T15:46:23+00:00

    With regards to the music folder, I found that the album covers were creating a hidden jpg file. I could not get Windows 10, nor "Remove Empty Directories", to detect an empty folder because of that hidden jpg. I added "*.jpg" to the list of files to ignore in "Remove Empty Directories" and it found all the empty folders in my Music folder. I was finally able to remove all of the empty folders.

    This may also work in explorer by showing hidden files before searching for empty folders.

    Thank you, but how do you... add "*.jpg" to the list of files to ignore in "Remove Empty Directories"

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