If the following script finds the deepest subfolders of the directory: @echo off setlocal enabledelayedexpansion set /a N=0 for /r "C:\MainFld" %%a in (.) do ( dir /ad /b "%%a" | find /v "" >nul if errorlevel 1 ( set /a N+=1 ren "%%a" Fld!N! ) ) How could I modify this to find every subfolder in the directory that have one or more files... excluding the subfolders that have no files... For example, given this path: C:\mainFld\Folder\SubFolder\SubSubFolder And say there were stray files under Folder and SubSubFolder, but not SubFolder... (say the only thing under SubFolder was SubSubfolder and no files)... how could I exclude SubFolder from the above script. Thank you for your time and continued help!

I don't follow your script, but you can find which folders are empty [no files]. dir /b/a-d foldname if errorlevel 1 echo it's empty ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thank-you M2, this works... But how would I do this for every folder in a directory? I tried setlocal enabledelayedexpansion for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir /b/a-d "C:\MainFolder"') do ( if errorlevel 1 echo %%a it's empty ) but couldn't get this (or other attempts) to work... Thank you for your help.

@echo off setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion set /p D=start where? pushd !D! for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%a in ('dir/b/s/ad') do ( dir/b/a-d "%%a" > nul 2> nul if errorlevel 1 echo %%a is empty ) ===================================== If at first you don't succeed, you're about average. M2

Thank you M2! works like a charm.