Windows 10: Make a list of empty folders

Discus and support Make a list of empty folders in Windows 10 Support to solve the problem; Hi I want to make a spreadsheet of (the full path statements of) all empty folders on a drive (external, USB). I have googled and found 4 or 5... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Support' started by BobSter2, Jul 3, 2021.

  1. BobSter2 Win User

    Make a list of empty folders


    Hi I want to make a spreadsheet of (the full path statements of) all empty folders on a drive (external, USB). I have googled and found 4 or 5 suggestions on how to do this, but couldn't get any of them to work. - - - Alternatively, some kind of DIR statement that gives the Path statements (of folders, not files) suffixed with EITHER the Number-of-Files OR the Size-in-KB for each folder. Those two/three fields preferably on the same line, with some kind of delineator, so I can dump it into a spreadsheet and filter out anything non-zero. e.g. E:\First Level, Folder 1\Second Level, Folder 1\ 246 56KB E:\First Level, Folder 1\Second Level, Folder 2\ 97,843 1,864KB E:\First Level, Folder 1\Second Level, Folder 3\ 0 0KB Karen's Directory Printer utility would usually do this, but it bombs-out if the task is too big. I am aware that there are utilities that will find and delete folders, but I haven't found one that will output a list. Windows 10 Home, latest.

    :)
     
    BobSter2, Jul 3, 2021
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  2. enso Win User

    Quick Access not searching Pictures folder

    Summary, that last suggestion didn't work.

    • I moved the pictures to another folder temporarily.


    • Since there were no troubleshooting steps for this scenario, just for the heck of it, I ran through the restore steps. Copied some pictures into the Pictures folder, ran a Quick Access search and initial problem remains: Searching all of QA doesn't find any files in Pictures folder, running search on just the Pictures folder does. I want to run a global search and find matching files in any/all of the Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures folders.
    That article dates from 2015 and I'm guessing is out of date. I hope it didn't create potential future problems in my registry.

    Bottom line: I'm still looking for a fix.
     
    enso, Jul 3, 2021
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  3. dalchina Win User
    Make list of files in a folder

    My impression is that what he wants is a list he can click on. To me that suggests creating one folder with shortcuts to the items in the various media folders.

    And perhaps Motim wants that to be a dynamic list- i.e. always up to date with respect to changing content in those folders.

    If so, this could be done using Autohotkey, with a script which scans through the files in each folder in turn and for each file use this command to create a shortcut:

    Make a list of empty folders [​IMG]


    Motim?
     
    dalchina, Jul 3, 2021
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  4. White Win User

    Make a list of empty folders

    List file names than a folder.

    Is there a bat file to generate the list of file names that I have inside a folder?
    If possible you can help me to do it or give me suggestions. Thanks in advance.

    Please.
     
    White, Jul 3, 2021
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