Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You guys just demonstrated one of the things that makes the LUG such a valuable resource to me. Steve: How did you wind up with so many empty folders? Did this happen over time as you were migrating from computer to computer, drive to drive? --Bob ==On Sat, Nov 21, 2015 at 9:25 AM, Jack Milton <jmilton2 at maine.rr.com> wrote: > Arrange by size will still work if you change the View options > (command-J) and check "Calculate all sizes.? This is useful but you may not > want to leave it on, especially in a folder with thousands of files and > folders as it may slow things down. > > > On Nov 21, 2015, at 10:08 AM, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > >> On Nov 21, 2015, at 6:38 AM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at > >> btinternet.com> > wrote: > >> > >> This may not be the expert way but if you choose "arrange by size" in > the finder menu under "view" all the empty folders will show up at the end > of the list and will then be easy to select and delete. > >> Frank D. > > > > > > tried this, exactly, size did not work because sorting did not occur as > we expected. Apparently the size that is measured is the folder size, not > counting what is inside, not sure about this explanation, in any case, I > did the same thing using sorting based on date modified, this worked fine, > so I was able to do the job, easily. > > > > Brilliant Frank, thank you very much. > >> > >> > >> On Saturday, 21 November 2015, 14:10, Steve Barbour < > steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >>> iMac with latest El Capitan, external 5 TB disc drive with many > folders, in groups, many are empty duplicate folders, in each group there > is one folder loaded with images, which I want to keep. > >>>> > >>>> I want to delete the duplicate empty folders and leave all the full > folders with photos in them. In many cases there are 4-5 duplicates, one of > which is full of images, the others empty. It is necessary to delete the > empties, leaving all the full folders with photos in place on the drive. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Is there an easy way to identify and remove just the empty folders? > > > >