Aug 22, 2012

How-To Geek: Automatically Clean Out and Remove Empty Files and Folders

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Automatically Clean Out and Remove Empty Files and Folders
Aug 22nd 2012, 18:00

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After cleaning out files on your hard drive, you may be left with a bunch of empty folders you want to delete. Rather than finding them manually, wouldn't it be easier to use a tool that can find them for you and delete them?

We found a free tool, called Delete Empty, that searches a specified path for empty folders and empty files (files of size zero) and deletes them, deepest paths first. For example, in the following structure, Folder2 is currently not empty, but will become so once EmptyFolder1 and EmptyFolder2 are deleted. Delete Empty will delete EmptyFolder1 and EmptyFolder2 and then discover that Folder 2 is now empty and delete it.

c:\Folder1\Folder2\EmptyFolder1

c:\Folder1\Folder2\EmptyFolder2

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