[Leica] how to remove empty folders ?

Jack Milton jmilton2 at maine.rr.com
Sat Nov 21 07:25:54 PST 2015


 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:
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>> On Nov 21, 2015, at 6:38 AM, FRANK DERNIE <frank.dernie at btinternet.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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. 
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> Brilliant Frank, thank you very much.
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>>   On Saturday, 21 November 2015, 14:10, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Is there  an easy way to identify and remove just the empty folders?



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