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B1aZer

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Deleting Folders Help
« on: January 31, 2008, 09:03:17 am »

Hello. I need some help with organising my music library (about 100gig). The thing is - how can i completely delete artist folder if there is some cover art file or any other file , except media file (mp3, aac..) from media center. For example when im deleting any album from media center the whole folder on my disk should be deleted too, but if there is folder.jpg (or somth like that) that folder wouldnt be deleted. All files would be deleted but not the folder. And now i have not small amount of such "almost empty" folders. Is there any quick and easy way how i can delete them ?

And btw can i export itunes playlists to jr media center ?
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PC_Hound23

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Re: Deleting Folders Help
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2008, 12:47:03 am »

I have had the same problem (made worse by letting i-tunes 'organise' my folders....)
I used a (free) tool called treesize. Let Treesize examine your data drive, where the mp3's ect are and then sort the minimal sized one ready for deletion. Its not fast or sexy, but it works better than trawling through gajillion folders. Happy to know a better way, but this may help in the meantime.
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Re: Deleting Folders Help
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2008, 01:22:04 am »

And btw can i export itunes playlists to jr media center ?

Yes.  Media Center > File > Import Playlist.
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B1aZer

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Re: Deleting Folders Help
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2008, 05:02:29 am »

Thx for help. I will try TreeSize for now.

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Though i didnt find how to delete empty subfolders, only empty folders with empty subfolders. There is no option like search folders less then defined size. And I cant sort by size , because in this case , i wont be able to see subfolders. My library tree looks like that - Artist - Album - songs. For example how to delete empty album folder. The only way i find is to manually browse all the artist folders for empty album folders. But i have more then 1000 artists..  :-[
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Re: Deleting Folders Help
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2008, 04:46:46 am »

oh.. well congrats for having such a great varity of artists :-)
But yeah I guess my solution wont be the best, as treesize does have limitations. Sorry if was not a great solution. Again I would also be happy to know a better solution. Best of luck
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