XYplorer Beta Club

In 6.00.0017, one of the new items:

* Find Files: now when the Size filter is active, folders (which are
seen as having 0 bytes here anyway) will not be listed in search
results anymore (even if you are looking for "0 bytes at most").

This (to me) does not make any sense!

You are saying - "I allow you to select for search "0 bytes at most" but I won't show it to you"

If you are not going to allow it, then you shouldn't be able to search for it.

And by the way, I DO use this precise search to find all empty folders in a main folder.

(EDIT: Ok, the - for totally empty folders makes up for the above. But I still say you should not allow searching for something you will not show any results for.)

John

John Bee wrote:And by the way, I DO use this precise search to find all empty folders in a main folder.

But this never worked! The size filter set to max=0 bytes always returned all folders! Now it never returns any folders, because it just does not work for folders.
Also: 0 bytes is not the same as empty. A 0 bytes folder can contain any number of zero-byte files and any number of (empty) folders.

admin wrote:But this never worked! The size filter set to max=0 bytes always returned all folders!

I always wondered about that, but I just worked around it.

admin wrote:Now it never returns any folders, because it just does not work for folders.

But then then the person searching for 0 byte folders will think there are none, when in fact there are.

admin wrote:Also: 0 bytes is not the same as empty. A 0 bytes folder can contain any number of zero-byte files and any number of (empty) folders.

Yes, I am aware of this, but when I search for 0 byte folders, I am searching for folders with no viable content. I don't care if there are folders/files in sub-folders, as long as it shows 0 bytes I know I can delete the folder.

Also while the - for truly empty folders is nice, I still have to rely on the 0 byte to find empty folders. For example: folder A has a subfolder (A1) in it The list shows this as 0 byte because of the subfolder in it, even though A1 is also empty which shows up as -.

However, I think I am splitting hairs here, so I will take this new feature as a bonus.

John: if you're looking for empty folders in one parent folder, don't bother with a search: Just press Shift+F5 (Calculate Folder Sizes)
Then all folders shown with '-' are "really" empty, and those with '0' only have empty folders/files in them.

You can even select a few folders before to limit the calculation to those, if you know some are not empty. (And you can still make a search for folders if you want, and then press Shift+F5 from search results)

jacky wrote:John: if you're looking for empty folders in one parent folder, don't bother with a search: Just press Shift+F5 (Calculate Folder Sizes)

Thanks for the info Jacky, preciate it.