Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> On Nov 21, 2015, at 7:41 AM, Robert Baron <robertbaron1 at gmail.com> > wrote: > > You guys just demonstrated one of the things that makes the LUG such a > valuable resource to me. right Bob, got the answer om the LUG after failing to get it on the apple list. > > 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? exactly right Bob, it?s fixed now. > > --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. thanks Jack, very much appreciated, steve >> >>> 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? >> >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information