DelEmpty - lists/erases empty dirs

[Hacker]

Thanks to all very much for the support.
Version 1.02 is available, hopefully it is going to work now. Thanks to JackFoo for the clue - and Christian probably guessed it right, I forgot one call to FindClose(). If it doesn't work, the code can be downloaded from the same location as the exe and I also added the formatmessage(getlasterror) call, so if it still isn't fixed hopefully I get some more debug info. However, it works here under W2K, so there's hope.

Again, thanks to everyone, and separate big thanks to JackFoo (who answered the call ), Christian, who was willing to check the code (and probably even guessed the problem right) and to Sven for the SDK.

Roman

[djk]

2Hacker
Good job. It works now properly. Thanks.

[Vansumsen]

Tried with Win2K Sp4
1° On Fat partition it seems to be OK
2° On NTFS partition:
a) delempty h: fp >>> don't stop I must push CTRL BREAK to stop it, buckled sowing allways the same dirs list
b) delempty h: del fp >>> error message from windows but all was deleted ...
Regards
Paul

[djk]

2Vansumsen
Point 2a&b - on WinNT seems to work OK both on FAT16 and NTFS.

[Hacker]

Vansumsen,
Does it work when not specifying H: (root) but with some subdir, like H:\testdir\ ?

TIA
Roman

[Vansumsen]

2(Holy)Hacker

You are right...
When I specify h:\blabla\ ...... it is perfect
The bugs ( a & b ) only appear when I try the whole disk (ROOT)


Thanks
Paul

[djk]

2Hacker and 2Vansumsen

Anyway if I tried - as in the example - use H: (root) it also worked correctly on WinNT.

[Hacker]

Vansumsen,
OK, thank you, will try to fix that. The problem is that DelEmpty is accidentally trying to go one level above the base path specified, however, there is no level above H: (well, any root).

Hopefully fixed tomorrow.

Thanks
Roman

[Hacker]

OK, version 1.03 is out, should fix the bug when the root dir is given as the base path.

Roman

[Clo]

2Hacker
  Hello Roman !
• Well… Now, what about a del-empty.wtx, to use that wonder as a plugin in the TC search ? For the most "average" users... ?

{  How hellish I'm, am I not? }

  Friendly regards,
Claude
Clo

[Hacker]

Oh well, I think I'd rather do a WGX...

Roman

[Vansumsen]

2Hacker
I'm sorry... Results with Version 1_03

Nothing changed when I specify a root... so I tried something else...

Two partition of an USB2 external HardDisk having the same contents... but one in Fat32 the other NTFS...

On the Fat 32 all is OK
On the NTFS nothing changed... allways the error windows and the programs don't stop recommencing the scan and producing an listing with repeat allways the sames empty dirs....

The only difference for those two disk is Fat32/NTFS


Finally I tried on a other PC WIN2K French SP4 two internal harddisk NTFS ... Exactly the same deportment...

Am I alone with this problem?

Regards
Paul

[Hacker]

Can you please either post or send me the output of DelEmpty (possibly ran on a drive with few directories) and the real directory structure and which dirs are empty?

TIA
Roman

[icfu]

Just found another app called RmEmpty developed three years ago:
http://www.tinyapps.org/blog/

DDL:
http://www.tinyapps.org/downloads/rmemp12.zip
Screenshot:
http://www.tinyapps.org/screenshots/rmempty.png
HP:
http://kickme.to/OTBSoft/ (currently not working)

Seems like the author had exactly the same probs under NT as Hacker, quite funny to compare the Readmes.

App allows deletion of more than one directory at same time, maybe a reason to use it or a reason for Hacker to further extend functionality of DelEmpty?

Whatever, I thought you might be interested

Icfu

[Hacker]

Thanks.

App allows deletion of more than one directory at same time, maybe a reason to use it or a reason for Hacker to further extend functionality of DelEmpty?

Well, could be done, but as there is very little interest in my util I don't think I can be kicked to doing that (let's force the user to run DelEmpty more times...).

Unfortunately, Vansumsen's bug is still haunting me...

Roman