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Old 05-17-2007   #1 (permalink)
Dr Harries


 
 

Searching Folders

This could be a very obvious question, but basically the background is I let
a program (itunes) sort out the folders and file names in the music file
folder on my computer. And it seems it only creates folders, and not delete
the ones it moved files out of which are now empty, I want to delete these
empty files. The problem is that I can’t sort by size because it doesn’t show
any size for the folders, firstly is there a way I can sort a bunch of
folders by the size of their content (please don’t tell me to click the
“size” tab because this is the problem, being simple minded maybe, it doesn’t
show a size for the folder contents). If this is confusing for the outside
observer to understand, I’m not too hot on explaining things, then is there a
way I can to a search to find folders with no content? So that I can delete
these? I am using "Windows Vista Premium".

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Old 06-04-2007   #2 (permalink)
Ilia Sacson [MS]


 
 

Re: Searching Folders

Try TreeSize from here: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

Ilia

"Dr Harries" <DrHarries@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ACCD8A3F-3D2F-45D0-B789-94EA7F95BD46@microsoft.com...
> This could be a very obvious question, but basically the background is I
> let
> a program (itunes) sort out the folders and file names in the music file
> folder on my computer. And it seems it only creates folders, and not
> delete
> the ones it moved files out of which are now empty, I want to delete these
> empty files. The problem is that I can’t sort by size because it doesn’t
> show
> any size for the folders, firstly is there a way I can sort a bunch of
> folders by the size of their content (please don’t tell me to click the
> “size” tab because this is the problem, being simple minded maybe, it
> doesn’t
> show a size for the folder contents). If this is confusing for the outside
> observer to understand, I’m not too hot on explaining things, then is
> there a
> way I can to a search to find folders with no content? So that I can
> delete
> these? I am using "Windows Vista Premium".


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Old 06-04-2007   #3 (permalink)
Dr Harries


 
 

Re: Searching Folders

Hmm dont really wanna download dodgy software, ive spent a bit of time doing
it maually, but thank for the help!

"Ilia Sacson [MS]" wrote:

> Try TreeSize from here: http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
>
> Ilia
>
> "Dr Harries" <DrHarries@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ACCD8A3F-3D2F-45D0-B789-94EA7F95BD46@microsoft.com...
> > This could be a very obvious question, but basically the background is I
> > let
> > a program (itunes) sort out the folders and file names in the music file
> > folder on my computer. And it seems it only creates folders, and not
> > delete
> > the ones it moved files out of which are now empty, I want to delete these
> > empty files. The problem is that I can’t sort by size because it doesn’t
> > show
> > any size for the folders, firstly is there a way I can sort a bunch of
> > folders by the size of their content (please don’t tell me to click the
> > “size” tab because this is the problem, being simple minded maybe, it
> > doesn’t
> > show a size for the folder contents). If this is confusing for the outside
> > observer to understand, I’m not too hot on explaining things, then is
> > there a
> > way I can to a search to find folders with no content? So that I can
> > delete
> > these? I am using "Windows Vista Premium".

>
>

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