Guy Ellis Rocks

If you're sure you going to need the empty folders again in the future then why on earth are you removing them???

Thanks for the script

Give this a whirl. It will not error on an empty folder. It will delete all files older than 30 days and leave folders alone.

Take out Where {!$_.PSIsContainer} if you want to nuke every file and folder.

Change to Where {$_.PSIsContainer}| to nuke every folder. (Does not check for files in subfolders...)

---scriptstart----

$Now = Get-Date

$Days = “30”

$TargetFolder = “C:\Test”

$LastWrite = $Now.AddDays(-$days)

$Files = get-childitem $TargetFolder -recurse -force | Where {!$_.PSIsContainer}|Where {$_.LastWriteTime -le “$LastWrite”}

foreach ($File in $Files)

{IF ($Files -ne $NULL)

{write-host “Deleting File $File.FullName” -foregroundcolor “Red” ; Remove-Item $File.FullName -recurse -force

}

}

---script end----

With some of the ideas posted here i created the following script to cleanup my music folders. I had to many empty folders where the music got pulled out and re-organized by iTunes.

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Param ([system.io.directoryinfo]$folderpath = $(throw "provide folderpath"))

$folders = get-childitem $folderpath -recurse -force | ? {$_.PSIsContainer}

if ($folders -ne $null)

{

[array]::Reverse($folders)

foreach($folder in $folders)

{

write-host "-----------------------------------------"

write-host "Examining contents of $($folder.fullname)"

$childitems = Get-Childitem $folder.fullname -recurse -force | ? {($_.fullname -like "*.mp3") -or ($_.fullname -like "*.m4a") -or ($_.fullname -like "*.wma")`

-or ($_.fullname -like "*.aa") -or ($_.fullname -like "*.aax")}

if($childitems -eq $null)

{

"Remove folder: " + $folder.FullName

Remove-Item $folder.FullName -recurse -force

}

else

{

write-host "media found in $folder, skipping delete"

}

write-host "-----------------------------------------"

$childitems = $null

}

}

else

{

write-host "no sub folders found"

}

Hi - loved it (although I'm too gutless to run it in case some empty folders simply "have to be there" for an application to run correctly).

What I'm wondering is - is it possible to re-design this script so that it will recurse through the C drive and provide a list of sets of folders with identical contents; all the "Duplicate Finders" are too granular insofar as they work on the duplicate file level, whereas I only want to identify pairs (or triples, or quads...) of (possibly distinctly named) folders with the exact same file and folder sub-structure.

Also as a real challenge, replace the notion "folders with the exact same file and folder sub-structure" with "folders, one of which is a proper subset of the other".

I know this is asking a lot, but at the same time it might be quite a challenge, mightn't it? I won't consider it cheating if the script simply generates (say) csv data to be further examined using Excel or SQLServer!!!

Scott

the first script above .. how would you use that against another path .. how would i change this so it will run against a drive letter or a unc path ..

$items = Get-ChildItem -Recurse

foreach($item in $items)

{

if( $item.PSIsContainer )

{

$subitems = Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Path $item.FullName

if($subitems -eq $null)

{

"Remove item: " + $item.FullName

Remove-Item $item.FullName

}

$subitems = $null

}

}

i tried to run it and it just keeps using the local drive i cannot get it to run in another script with the path of the server volume - either using the unc naming or thr drive letter on the system that is running it .

thanks in advance

Thanks for posting-saves time.

I had accidentally run a Duplicate file delete program and forgot to check "Delete Empty Folders". This PS script cleared out all these empty folders in a snap. Thanks!!

i want a script which delete folder that contain only one file in it.

i.e. i have one folder named abc . this folder contain 5000 sub folder & each sub folder contain files thay may be from 1 to 15 . i just want to delete sub folders that contain only one file in it. all the others folder should remain intact.

Thanks in advance.

Compressed version of the script above:

$folder=<root folder from which you want to clear out empty folders>

ls $folder|%{if($_.psIsContainer -and !(ls $_.fullName)){echo "Removing $($_.fullName)"; del $_.fullName -force -recurse}}

And for Amit:

ls $folder|%{if($_.psIsContainer -and (@(ls $_.fullName).count -eq 1)){echo "Removing $($_.fullName)"; del $_.fullName -force -recurse}}

Cheers!!

One Problem with this Script:

If it deletes an empty folder and the result is that the folder above it is now empty then this script doesn't delete the new empty folder. To fix this the foreach loop should be a for loop starting from the end of the $items array and moving to the front:

for($i=$items.length-1 ;$i -ge 0; $i--)

{

$item = $items[$i]

....