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Vanity Remover quickly finds and removes empty folders
One of my resolutions this year was to stick to a regular system maintenance plan. I've got CCleaner set up to purge garbage files and prune my registry, Security Essentials doing nightly scans for malware, and the Windows 7 backup utility saving my important files to an external hard drive.A handy little tool I'm adding to my routine is Vanity Remover. It's a small, portable tool designed to find and remove empty folders on your hard drive.
Click the folder icon to choose a starting point, press the green arrow to start, and Vanity Remover recursively scans for and removes content-free directories.
Getting rid of pointless folders is one thing I'm almost always too lazy to do, but I think I can handle running this app once every fortnight...
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Subscribe to commentsKris120890Jan 25th 2010 1:39PM
What about hidden files in a folder. I've got folders with files in them that are all hidden meaning those folders might show up as empty.
Gardiner WestboundJan 25th 2010 1:59PM
Not sure this is a good idea. Many applications install empty folders for future use. What happens if you run the application and it can't find it's folders.
VolomanJan 25th 2010 4:11PM
A lot of programs i run, (yes... sadly mostly games.) Create the required files even after i have deleted the random empty folders they need, but you have a point. God forbid you even touch the Win7 64bit folder for 'itunes'... you screw anything up and your back to downloading a new 90mb file to replace it.
JonathanJan 26th 2010 12:00AM
Doesn't look like a safe idea. Almost every cleaner programs can do it (see GlaryUtilities). But it's not safe as is as it's not that safe to delete zero-byte files too. Some application just recreate them at the first run, others wont work anymore.
I guess, the CCleaner's programmers who i guess are smart enough, didn't used these futures right for this reason.
secret.miraclesJan 26th 2010 7:10AM
It gives an error :(
johnnyg0Jan 27th 2010 12:22PM
I have been using this program called RED (Remove Empty Directory) for quite some times now and its really great.