We have a directory c:\temp that act as storage for a directory monitor for printing before it moves files along. Within c:\temp a unique folder name is created along with a inbound and outbound folder within that for each print job that is sent. After processing the print job it leaves all these folders. I need a batch file that will delete all the folders and subfolders in c:\temp as long as they are empty of files. We are piling up thousands of these folders a day and deleting them manually is becoming tiresome.

The following relies on the fact that rd /q will only delete an empty directory: pushd c:\temp for /d %%d in (*) do rd /q %%d popd

@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion dir/b/s/ad c:\temp | sort /r > sdlist for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%d in (sdlist) do ( rd %%d 2>nul ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2