Feature request: Clean up empty directories upon exiting

Issue #2515 new
EazyCheeze1978 created an issue

Using 7.6. Often, when scanning for new media to download, LaunchBox will create directories (or folders if you wish) for every single type of media supported by the front end, even if it is not supported by the platform for which I scanned for media. So, for example I find sub-directories for Steam-related content in the Famicom Disk System directory. That's sort of silly, though I understand why that system works the way it does, so there are absolutely no errors.

Unfortunately, before I downloaded a third-party utility to remove empty directories (RED, available on SourceForge), at one point the number of empty sub-directories in my Images directory got up to around 750.

So, I would just ask that you please consider a feature that would add a few seconds of close time to scan for and remove those empty directories.

Now, I know Clean Up Images off the Tools menu does this as well, but with as many images as I now have, the entire process of finding all orphaned images as well as removing the empty directories can take up to 10 minutes or more. So, I don't use that one too often, except when purging some games I know I won't want to play.

Anyway, thank you so so so much, Jason, for your amazing work on this front end. I am proudly a Premium member and when I can I will get that lifetime extension! Take care!

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