# Empty folder

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/empty-folder/16778
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 30, 2015, 5:08pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/empty-folder/16778 "2015-03-30T17:08:05Z")
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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2015, 6:15pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/empty-folder/16778/6 "2015-03-31T18:15:05Z")

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> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> To me this looks like a purely academical discussion.  
> Honest: how often do you scan through your library and the filesystem in parallel?

Never

All of this comes to one thing thing: statistics

For example: I now how many "score" track I had at different points in time throughout the years- and now I can see, how my passion for cinematic music increased from 33% to 55% in my collection. And that has nothing to do with the listening process

> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> As empty folders are not marked as empty by the file system so that you do not get any hint while browsing through the folder list, you have to open each one individually only to find it is empty or not.  
> And even if it is empty then this would not mean that the artist has disappeared but it could just as well be that before, there was a typo in the name and the emptiness of the folder is more than justigied.

That is exactly the problem

Until recently, my every [also featured] artist had its own folder, with copies of tracks in it. But now [[Playlist making](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/16599/8)] I'm left with some empty folders. And right now it is accurate- but in time errors will show up [folders that should be removed because of absence of a given artist in form of tracks]

> [@ohrenkino](#):
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> And then you really want to enter a filter to look for the name of the artist in the program that shows the tags?  
> What a cumbersome process! That might work for a few dozens but that's it.  
> [...]

That is way I need an automatic process; that would spit me a short list of folders [errors] to be removed. So that I can retain good empty folders; so that in turn I can just enter to main folder and see how many artist I have in my collection [just as I can tell how many tracks I have]

> [@DetlevD](#):
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> I suspect you need some 'null' or 'zero' object to handle the case of 'empty folder'.  
> So ... create a dummy mp3 file, name it as you will, give it tag-fields as you will, ...  
> and you will stay informed, even from the view of Mp3tag.  
> [...]

The only way this workaround could work would be, if I would store a marker in form of a dummy file in every folder, not only the empty ones. This is of course doable but I an see one big problem: I would have 3000+ unwanted files on my list, probably all with the one same name. And something like 9 out of 10 times after loading my files to Mp3tag I would start by removing them from the list; so I can imagine that after doing that for the 2066th time I would have had it with this motherfracking files on this motherfracking list

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