[dba-Tech] Empty folders

Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software bchacc at san.rr.com
Tue Sep 21 12:32:07 CDT 2004


What you need is a bit of VBA code that cycles through all of the folders on
a drive.  Then you could get the directory for each folder and the ones that
return a null string would be the empties.

Maybe someone on AccessD has such a snippet.


Rocky

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Tydda" <Jon.Tydda at alcontrol.co.uk>
To: "Dba-Tech (E-mail)" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 7:06 AM
Subject: [dba-Tech] Empty folders


> Hi all, does anyone know of a way to find empty folders in win2k?
>
> I'm re-ripping a lot of my cd collection, and some of the tracks/albums
are
> being named more correctly as the online catalogs are more up to date than
> before, which is leaving me with a lot of empty folders. I have deleted
the
> ones in the main tree, but as for going through all the artists folders
and
> deleting the empty album names, that's going to be a pain... I was
thinking
> that there has to be an easier way to do it than just looking...
>
>
> Jon
>
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