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

Regards

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-07-16T04:32:33+00:00

    This is clearly the best answer!

    Try this free source software "Remove Empty Directories" works like a charm

    you can find it on Click Here.

    Thanks :)

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-12-09T03:57:36+00:00

    Hi, I followed your advice to searche for empty folders, however I didnt get any results even though there are tons of empty folders.

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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
    2015-10-08T22:06:36+00:00

    I see 

         C:%directoryofinterest%>RD"C:%directoryofinterest\AppData\Local"

         The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

    repeated a bunch of times for each folder in the batch.  

    I think I may be misunderstanding your

          Put every line between << " >>

    I thought you meant put every line in quotation marks, and then put "RD" in front of it.  Not so?   

    By the way, I don't have an ASCII editor that I am aware of, and I don't have admin privileges to install on my work computer, so I used MS Word find and replace to replace every ^p with "^p", and then put the " in front of the first line and deleted the extraneous last ", then did similar for RD, with "Use wildcards" unchecked, and then I just opened the .bat file in notepad and pasted the modified text from Word into it.  Do I need to generate it with an ASCII editor for the syntax to be correct?

    Also, as I believe somebody mentioned above, the DIR-empty.bat file produced by the intial command contains *every* directory, not just empty ones. Is the RD "~" step supposed to apply a filter to get to the actual empty ones?

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