Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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?