{"id":158,"date":"2022-10-27T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/72-14-185-161.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2022-11-22T05:08:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T05:08:26","slug":"empty-folders-finder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/empty-folders-finder\/","title":{"rendered":"Empty Folders Finder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Glary Utilities &#8216;Empty Folders Finder&#8217; is a freeware tool that finds empty folders quickly, allows you to open the folder for a preview of its contents, and allows you to delete those folders to the Recycle Bin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Interface Overview<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"772\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/72-14-185-161.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-75.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-75.png 772w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-75-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-75-768x579.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 772px) 100vw, 772px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1.The Second Line Button:<\/strong>\u00a0quick access button to\u00a0<strong>Scan for Empty Folders<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Delete Checked Folders<\/strong>, Open Folder,s and add the selected folders to\u00a0<strong>Exclude folder list<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2.The Large Box:<\/strong>&nbsp;displays the empty folders with the name and full path of the folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Select all Drives or Folders to Scan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/72-14-185-161.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-76.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-76.png 549w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-76-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Empty Folders Finder can scan all parts of a disk for empty folders. It offers a quick and effective way to scan the files from local disks or folders and will show you a list of files on the drive. Just click &#8220;Scan for Empty Folders&#8221; and a box will pop up, which allows you to choose all drives or individual drives or a folder you want to scan, and then click on the &#8220;Scan Now&#8221; button and all empty folders will be shown at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Delete Checked Empty Folder to Recycle Bin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/72-14-185-161.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-77.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-77.png 762w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-77-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After scanning the local drives, you can see how many empty folders occupy your hard disk. If those empty folders are system folders, you needn&#8217;t remove them. Our recommendation is not to remove it. If the empty folders were created by yourself for storing files and then you haven&#8217;t put any files in them, then you&#8217;d better remove them. Just mark the box before the empty folders you want to delete, and click &#8220;Delete Checked Folders&#8221; to remove the empty folders from your disk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Restore Deleted Empty Folders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"854\" height=\"603\" src=\"https:\/\/72-14-185-161.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-78.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-78.png 854w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-78-300x212.png 300w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-78-768x542.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 854px) 100vw, 854px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Empty Folders Finder can auto-backup the empty folders that you have deleted. If you have deleted some empty system folders, you can use the &#8220;Restore&#8221; feature to recover them. You can quickly restore deleted empty folders with Empty Folders Finder. First, find &#8220;Restore&#8221; from the &#8220;Edit&#8221; menu on the first line button or click the &#8220;Restore&#8221; button from the second line button, and then you need to choose the backups you want to restore, finally, click &#8220;Restore&#8221; in the lower right corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Menu Check more than one Empty Folders Group<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"803\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/72-14-185-161.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-79.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-79.png 803w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-79-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-79-768x353.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 803px) 100vw, 803px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Empty Folders Finder offers a great feature that can check more than one empty folder group at a time to save you much time on checking empty folders. Just click &#8220;Check&#8221;. It can help to check all the empty folders at once. If you want to check all folders, check none, or invert, click an inverted black triangle symbol beside &#8220;Check&#8221; or click the &#8220;Edit&#8221; menu on the first line button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How to use Empty Folders Finder<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Click &#8216;Scan for empty folders&#8217;. Select the drives you want to scan by checking the appropriate drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. Click the &#8216;Scan Now&#8217; button and wait for the process to complete. You can cancel the scanning process by pressing the Cancel Button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. From the list of empty folders, you can select those you want to delete by checking them. You can also ignore the folder while scanning by clicking &#8216;Exclude this folder(Never find again)&#8217; from the Edit menu or on the Second Line Button. Select the folders and right-click on them to see a context menu. The various options given are self-explanatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"834\" height=\"302\" src=\"https:\/\/72-14-185-161.ip.linodeusercontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-80.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-80.png 834w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-80-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-80-768x278.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 834px) 100vw, 834px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Click &#8216;Delete checked folders&#8217; to send all selected empty folders to the Recycle Bin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glary Utilities &#8216;Empty Folders Finder&#8217; is a freeware tool that finds empty folders quickly, allows you to open the folder for a preview of its contents, and allows you to delete those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[65,66],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-files-folders","tag-empty-folder-finder","tag-delete-empty-folders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glarysoft.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}