Keep your PC clean with Remove Empty Directories

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Keep your PC clean with Remove Empty Directories

by Brad Linder Aug 31st 2007

If you're like most PC users, you add and remove programs regularly, rearrange your music folders periodically, and generally leave your file system looking messier than your bedroom floor. You probably have dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of folders on your PC containing absolutely no files.

Remove Empty Directories is a free application that does exactly what you'd expect it to. It removes empty directories. Yeah, we know it probably violates some sort of cardinal rule of software to give software an obvious name, but we'll let this one pass.

If you have temporary directories or other folders that might be empty at the moment, but which shouldn't be deleted, you can "protect" those files from deletion. And while you can scan your entire hard drive, we'd recommend against it. Certain empty folders in your Windows and Program Files directories may be needed in order for applications to run properly.

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Tags: cleanup, remove empty directories, RemoveEmptyDirectories

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Insomnious said 8:02AM on 9-01-2007

This didn't work too well for me. Not only was scanning slow and pretty much took over my laptop's entire memory, but it was only able to delete a handful of files before the process was halted by a file which was in use (which is strange considering this program is meant to delete 'empty' folders).

It's a nice idea, but not very well implemented and perhaps released a little to early.

AsktheAdmin said 9:55AM on 9-01-2007

I had the same issues as the guy above. Any ideas? Do you need to run this thing in Safe Mode??

http://www.askTheAdmin.com

Morris said 11:52AM on 10-14-2007

Same problem too!!!i am working on a hugh music project that leaves me with tons of empty folders. This program did not work. I am working with 9000 directories. it says it deleted them but it didn't!!!

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