Program: Remove Empty Directories
License: Open Source
Description: From the homepage:
- Shows empty directories before deleting them
- Supports multiple delete modes (including Delete to recycle bin) (Version 2.2)
- Allows white and black listing of directories by using filter lists
- Can detect directories with empty files as empty
Website: http://www.jonasjohn.de/red.htm
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I have to wonder why there's a need for a tool to find and remove empty directories. It's not like they take any real space. And there are quite a few apps that expect a given directory to exist to be able to save a setting or similar and won't properly create it if it doesn't exist (one of the things I've learned after years of looking at how software written by other people stores data).
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
RED requires .NET so it's dead anyway.
I don't know why, but or seemingly random reasons, maybe a forced shut down while deleting files or directories or some other bug in Windows. I try to delete a whole directory and it goes through all the files inside, and then the folder stays. If I try to delete the empty folder, it says that there is something still there, even if folder properties says 0 bytes.
I also have some folders on a usb 250gb external drive I don't recall making that are random 20digit characters a the name, but I can't delete because it says I don't have permission.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
Neither of the above are related to this app. It doesn't help you delete folders that appear to have something in them but you are unable to delete or delete folders you can't delete because the security on them is set so you can not (often by the system account because those random folders are used by Windows and software updates). Let's try to stick to the actual app and its merits. It lets you search large drives or folders for empty folders and delete them.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
The folders I was talking about were empty, nothing in them and 0 bytes. But windows says that there are files (nothing hidden) in them.
So I thought that this program may help, it may not, I've tried a bunch of different trying to clear out that external hard drive of those particular folders.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
All this does is let you find empty directories - for people who want to find all the empty directories within a drive or folder for some reason - and delete them normally (either directly or to the recycle bin... equivalent to shift-delete or delete in Windows Explorer). That's all it does. Your issues with those specific directories are an entirely different situation.
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
WinDirStat or TreeSize sorted or read from the thin end should show what is wanted (or not wanted as empty).
Personally I chase after dirs with 100's MB in them rather than empty ones @ 32-256 or something per entry.
Compare that to a tree
Wm