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Hello

I there an easy way to find and kill all empty folders?

Hello SeaStar and welcome to the FreeCommander forum.

I'm not sure if there are other ways to achieve this, but this workaround works:

- enable option in menu > view > plain view - folders*
- enable option in menu > folder > size of folders*
- click the title "size auto" or "size" to sort by size (or use menu for other views than Details)
- empty folders will be displayed on top with the size "0 Byte(s)"
- then it's easy to select all and delete (select last 0 Byte folder and press Shift+Home, then Delete)

* it may be slow if you have many files/folders

I recommend to check if the selected folders are really empty before deleting, just press Alt+Enter or right click and select "properties" (while all zero Byte folders are selected).

If you need a little "one-trick-wonder-software" for this you can use:

pcwEmptyFolder: http://www.pcwelt.de/downloads/pcwEmpty ... 11678.html
or
Remove Empty Directories: http://www.jonasjohn.de/red.htm

RED is starting to get developed again. Such as a great program.

Here's the GitHub
https://github.com/hxseven/Remove-Empty-Directories

Releases
https://github.com/hxseven/Remove-Empty ... s/releases

You could add this to a toolbar in FC and use the %ActivDir%.

Here's my toolbar settings:

Open the app and viola, it's REaDy to go. I'll get my coat.