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- bawldiggle Downvoted a comment on Remove Empty Directories (RED)Simply removes empty folders just as the name suggests. Perfect when you are cleaning up duplicated files with some other app. Like
AllDup . - bawldiggle posted a reply on Remove Empty Directories (RED)
A must-have! I wouldn't ask for any change or improvement - it's perfect. Very quick, simple, yet offers a lot of configuration options for people who needs customized search. I used it with a variety of directory names, including non-latin alphabets and there were no problems. There are internal safeguards to ensure that nothing will go wrong. I find hard to believe reviews saying it doesn't work. Apparently there are some files inside (hidden/system files?) or maybe filesystem needs checking. I used for years on different PCs, OSes with variety of options and it always worked.
Simply removes empty folders just as the name suggests. Perfect when you are cleaning up duplicated files with some other app. Like AllDup .
AllDup is a duplicate FILES finder, not an empty folders finder
26-Oct-2020
Reply written about 1 year ago
Finds empty directories, but only 0kb ones.
Windows has empty directories of several kb due to "protected operating system files"
Want to delete folders in my music dir, from when I migrated from itunes
It would be weird if the tool named remove EMPTY directories would remove directories that aren't empty, wouldn't it?
Reply written over 1 year ago
I've moved a couple of workstations up to Windows 8 Pro/64bit and it is still a champ for me.
Use RED2 on all my PC's (ranging from XP Pro/SP3 to Win7 Ultimate) and only had 1 problem, ever. That was when I had a directory with really unusual attributes. When I corrected the attributes, worked like a champ.
Just a message to say that RED has been updated on feb. 2011. It is now compatible with Vista & Windows 7 so you won't have to do what is suggested in endolith's message.
RED is the best tool I've found for this, since it handles directories with nothing but junk in them (Thumbs.db, .DS_Store), lets you permanently protect directories from deletion, shows a nice tree view, etc.
I got it working in Windows 7 using the compatibility troubleshooter thing, but it doesn't seem fully compatible. It often crashes, due to an inability to read certain filenames.
http://superuser.com/questions/39674/recursively-delete-empty-directories-in-windows