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Looking for a way to delete directories under a certain size

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  • 16-04-2014 4:23pm
    #1
    jimjamcoolio
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭


    So I've got this massive library of music and I'm playing it though MediaMonkey. My files are sorted like this: 
    Z:\Music\1 Giant Leap\1 Giant Leap
Z:\Music\1 Giant Leap\What About Me
    (separate albums under artist)

    But in lots of cases I have multiple folders with album names but the tracks have been deleted from inside MediaMonkey and all that remains are .jpg album art files. 
    Z:\Music\1 Giant Leap\1 Giant Leap {97.3Mb}
Z:\Music\1 Giant Leap\1.Giant.Leap(2001) {15.9Kb}
Z:\Music\1 Giant Leap\What About Me {246Mb}
    So I'm looking for a way to delete all the folders in my Z:\Music\ directory that contain less than say 20Kb.
    I've tried FolderSizes but that's not quite what I'm looking for because it only sorts folders in the immediate directory and I would have to go into each Artist individually which isn't really viable for a collections of close to 3000 artists..


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    #2
    Bob Z
    Registered Users Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭Bob Z


    Did you try going into your music folder and arranging by size? Then start checking the smallest folders?


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    jimjamcoolio
    Registered Users Posts: 109 ✭✭jimjamcoolio


    Yeah that works for the base folder to delete it's immediate ones but the problem is with the almost empty folders inside all the subdirectories.


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    Gamayun
    Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭Gamayun


    Are you using Windows? Can you not just search the main music folder for *? This should list everything in the directory.

    Then change the view to Details, sort by Type then Size. You can then scroll down to all the directories which will be clustered and sorted by their size.


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    Triangle
    Registered Users Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Triangle


    Gamayun wrote: »
    Are you using Windows? Can you not just search the main music folder for *? This should list everything in the directory.

    Then change the view to Details, sort by Type then Size. You can then scroll down to all the directories which will be clustered and sorted by their size.

    +1 easiest way to Do what you want.


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    Triangle
    Registered Users Posts: 960 ✭✭✭Triangle


    Gamayun wrote: »
    Are you using Windows? Can you not just search the main music folder for *? This should list everything in the directory.

    Then change the view to Details, sort by Type then Size. You can then scroll down to all the directories which will be clustered and sorted by their size.

    +1 easiest way to Do what you want.


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    Bob Z
    Registered Users Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭Bob Z


    use this
    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-files/how-do-i-find-all-the-empty-folders-and-delete/3a7b5a35-1b5e-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5

    but put folder size to maybe 1 or 10 mb?


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    #8
    Bob Z
    Registered Users Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭Bob Z


    or this?
    http://www.foldersizes.com/foldersizes/find-empty-folders.htm


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