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Detecting and removing empty foloders
Hello. Is there a way to detect all empty folders and subfolders so they may be deleted?
- Walter
Dropbox Staff
Hey SJP23, thanks for using Dropbox and welcome to the Community!
I'm afraid there's no way to do this at the moment automatically, but you can use these steps to calculate the size of your folders - in case it helps.
That said, may I ask if you're using the website or the Dropbox apps on your devices?
Let me know and we'll take it from there.
An automated tree-walk way to remove all empty folders beneath a selected parent folder would save a lot of manual time.
A few years ago, my organisation decided to use a standard folder structure for every project and now over 95% of thousands of folders are empty.
Tools exist in other file sharing platforms, but not for Dropbox. This doesn't seem too complex a feature to add to the admin console.
