Today I’ll tell you how to find and delete empty folders on your computer. I don’t know about you, but when I urgently need to put something in a folder (for example, unused documents or already watched movies), I simply create a folder without renaming it, throw everything in a pile and put it aside until better times. After documents are no longer needed, I try to delete them, but forget to delete folders.
And even after deleting programs, there are a lot of empty folders left, which, although they don’t take up much space, are quite an eyesore. So, I decided to find all the empty folders on my computer and delete them forever!
To do this I downloaded the program Remove Empty Directories which was created precisely for these purposes.
After downloading and installing the program, run it, let’s figure out what it can do and how to work with it correctly.
First, go to the program settings tab, in it you need to pay attention to 3 important blocks:
1. Removal method. By default, delete to trash is selected.
2. Files that will be ignored. Those. if the folder contains only files with the *.tmp extension, the folder will be considered empty.
3. Directory names that will be ignored.
I think this is all clear and no questions should arise. Let's move on.
Now open the first tab again “ Scan” and press the button “ Scan again” to scan your entire computer. If you want to check only a specific directory (for example, the desktop), then click the “ Browse” and specify the path to your desktop. For example, here is the result of scanning my desktop
As you can see, I found two empty folders on my desktop, as evidenced by their highlighting in red. Folders that are not empty are highlighted in gray (they will not be deleted).
I press “ Delete folders” and wait until the folders are deleted
Ready! Now you can clear your computer of empty folders yourself! Periodically check your computer and clean it of empty folders, I do this with
Today we’ll look at how to find and delete empty folders on your computer. I don’t know about you, but when I urgently need to put something in a folder (for example, unused documents or already watched movies), I simply create a folder without renaming it, throw everything in a pile and put it aside until better times. After documents are no longer needed, I try to delete them, but forget to delete folders.
And even after deleting programs, there are a lot of empty folders left, which, although they don’t take up much space, are quite an eyesore. So, I decided to find all the empty folders on my computer and delete them forever!
To do this I downloaded the program Remove Empty Directories which was created precisely for these purposes.
After downloading and installing the program, run it, let’s figure out what it can do and how to work with it correctly.
First, go to the program settings tab, in it you need to pay attention to 3 important blocks:
1. Removal method. By default, delete to trash is selected.
2. Files that will be ignored. Those. if the folder contains only files with the *.tmp extension, the folder will be considered empty.
3. Directory names that will be ignored.
I think this is all clear and no questions should arise. Let's move on.
Now open the first tab again “ Scan” and press the button “ Scan again” to scan your entire computer. If you want to check only a specific directory (for example, the desktop), then click the “ Browse” and specify the path to your desktop. For example, here is the result of scanning my desktop
As you can see, I found two empty folders on my desktop, as evidenced by their highlighting in red. Folders that are not empty are highlighted in gray (they will not be deleted).I press “ Delete folders” and wait until the folders are deleted
Ready! Now you can clear your computer of empty folders yourself! Periodically check your computer and clear it of empty folders; this is often done along with
Good day, dear friends, acquaintances and other personalities. Today we will find out how delete empty folders from computer based .
The fact is that during the use of a computer, many different empty folders are created (they are created both by the system itself and by the user). Actually, as you understand, this article will focus on a program that searches and deletes empty folders on the disk.
To be honest, I was quite surprised when I saw that she found order 6000 empty folders on only one disk with the system :)
As a rule, these folders are created during various installations, caching, etc., and they are created, of course, initially complete, and then the files from them (say, after installing something) are deleted, but the folders themselves remain hanging dead cargo.
Not to say that this is bad, because... the weight of these folders is 0 bytes, but still, purely theoretically, for file system It will be better if there are fewer of these folders in the file table. And if anything happens, you won’t have to poke around in folders where there’s nothing :)
In general, to the point.
How and how to remove empty folders from Windows
For our purposes, the Remove Empty Directories program is perfect. I must say that she is quite capricious in terms of work, she will kick here and there, but in general you can make friends with her :)
I could not find a human working analogue, at least. Previously, I remember, I used SBMAV Disk Cleaner for similar needs, but it switched to paid rails, and other cleaners hard drive They do not work as effectively in terms of searching and deleting empty directories.
You can get the program, for example, from here.
The installation is extremely simple, and I will not dwell on it.
There is no support for the Russian language, but it is not needed there - everything is already intuitive.
IMPORTANT ! The program requires installed .
After installation, launch the program, use the "Browse.." button to select the disk to scan and click on Scan Folders.
After waiting for the scanning to finish, we happily press Delete Folders and enjoy the result. That seems to be it :)
All that remains is to do the same with all the disks in the system.
Afterword
I don’t know how much more useful it really is, but it doesn’t harm - it’s a fact. Usually never. If necessary, Windows itself will recreate the necessary folders if it needs them.
One way or another, for me personally, this was convenient primarily because I stopped bumping into empty folders while traveling through the internals of the system. And it used to happen, you walk with your mouse along a huge path in the guide, - tyrk, tyrk, - and it’s empty! :) It's a shame, really.
If you have any questions, additions, or suggestions, then, as always, I will be happy to answer them in the comments to this article.
A well known problem is deleting empty folders. Sometimes they are even created spontaneously and you forget about them over time, and then they lie there and you create new ones without even understanding those that already exist. Or maybe the existing ones are also empty?
Is this a familiar problem? No? Oh well. In this article, I will show you a program that makes finding and deleting empty folders a very simple matter.
The program is free, but does not have a Russian interface. It won’t be difficult to understand it, because everything is intuitive and I’ll also show you what to do.
So, after starting the program, the main window will look like this:
More precisely, at first it will be empty. You need to click the "Browse..." button and select a search location. This can be the entire computer, or a disk or folder.
After you have decided where to look, click the “Scan folders” button and the search process will begin, as a result of which the window will look like mine above.
All folders are shown in a tree view so you can understand where they are. Folders that are empty and can be deleted are marked in red.
Folders are deleted after clicking the "Delete folders" button
If you wish, you can open any folder by clicking on it 2 times with LMB.
Also when you click on the RMB folder ( Right Button mouse) a menu will appear
In it, you can open a folder in Explorer, scan only the selected folder, protect/unlock the folder, add to the ignored list, and delete the entire folder with all other folders inside.
As you can see, you can delete not only automatic mode, but also manually. It is not at all necessary to delete everything using the program, but just take advantage of the fact that it will show them to you.
On the "Settings" tab you can set various settings
For example, do not search in system directories or hidden ones. You can also add separate folders and files in them that do not need to be scanned.
In the "Explorer integration" field you can add a program item to context menu conductor (which appears with RMB), but for this you will need the program.
I hope now you can easily find and delete empty folders on your computer.