How to delete empty folders in a document library

I got a question on how to clean a document library for empty folders. I thought i would like to share the code with you.

It’s a pretty simple way to do it. I the following list cleaning work for SharePoint 2007. Feel free to use the code and come with suggestions.

/// <summary> /// Cleans the specific folder. /// </summary>
///The root folder.
private static void CleanSpecificFolder(SPFolder rootFolder)
{
  foreach (SPFolder folder in rootFolder.SubFolders)
  {
    CleanSpecificFolder(folder);
  }

  if( rootFolder.SubFolders.Count == 0 &amp;&amp; rootFolder.Files.Count == 0)
  {
    rootFolder.Delete();
  }
}

This function should be called with the following code, where you activate the cleaning of empty folders on the list

foreach (SPFolder subFolder in spList.RootFolder.SubFolders)
{
  CleanSpecificFolder(subFolder);
}

The function is made recursive. The function is actived a foreach loop, as we don’t want to delete the rootfolder on the SPList item, since that would mess the list up.

I hope you got inspired by this post.