Find only directories?

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Is there any way in DO to find only directories having a zero size (that is, no files in their subtree, even if directory entries exist in their subtree).

John Land

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Sorry, nevermind, figured it out (I was looking for implementation of the "Directory" attribute -- needed to use the DO function TYPE function to match "[folders only]")

John Land

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Hi John,

Read your message, and thought great, thats exactly what I want to do. But I can't get it to work, could you please elaborate a bit on how you have done it.

I've set a filter to match TYPE 'folders only' and a second filter to match AND 'size' = 0 bytes.

But it returns nothing, even on test folders where i know there are empty folders further down. I have tried with the Subfolder tickbox checked and unchecked, still nothing.

I know i can view a folder with the size settings visible and then sort the empty folders to the top, but thats not how i wanted to do it, I need to sift through hundreds of folders and clear out the empty ones.

If anyone can help. Thanks

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Quad --

Acutally, your solution is what I did. After I found all (and only) directories in a subtree, I displayed them in flat view, sorted by size, and selected and deleted the empty ones. Not very intuitive -- what SHOULD occur is that all zero size directories are selected by Type=DIR and Size= 0, or Attribute=DIR and Size=0 (which I find more intuitive and in synch with terminology from other products).

John Land

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Correction -- I didn't use flat view, because it was unavailable as an option. I just sorted the selected directories by size and deleted the EMPTY and zero byte (meaning they contained at least one zero byte file) directories.

John Land

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Folders reported as Zero bytes may also just contain sub-folders also containing either nothing or yet additional 'empty' sub-folders.

I would submit a bug report to GPSoft regarding type-[folders only] and equals-0 bytes not finding anything. And since 'truly' empty folders seem to be cased off specially, it might actually be a good feature request to have a special find option for [Empty Folders] added...

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Thanks for the responses guys.

I only purchased DOpus a few weeks ago and guessed that I might be going about things the wrong way, but after your input i just might submit that bug report after all.