[Leica] how to remove empty folders ?

[Robert Baron]

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?
>
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