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I have recently clean up my personal computer and I have ran uninstallers of old programs I don't use anymore. Some of the programs when uninstalled leave a folder of the program in ProgramFiles. Sometimes it's empty and sometimes it has a few files left behind. I was wondering if I could get the Folder Size. If below 1MB it would delete the folder or open the folder just to check that I'm not deleting something important. I would like it safe enough that if I ran it in Windows folder that it wouldn't destroy my OS.

Main objective is getting the folder size. I can write all the other but any tips on making it safe would be appreciated before I ran the script.

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My projects: Inventory / Mp3 Inventory, Computer Stats

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DirGetSize maybe? And I wouldn't mess with system files if you're unsure.

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Updated: 22/04/2018

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mastazero,

Welcome to the AutoIt forum. :oops:

But I do hope any subsequent posts are more to the point and offer more to the community than that first one. :bye:

M23

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ArrayMultiColSort ---- Sort arrays on multiple columns
ChooseFileFolder ---- Single and multiple selections from specified path treeview listing
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Blonde moment... Sorry overlooked DirGetSize...

No problem, best to test in a sandbox e.g. Sandboxie before you unleash this on your working system.

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_AdapterConnections() • _AlwaysRun() • _AppMon() • _AppMonEx() • _ArrayFilter/_ArrayReduce • _BinaryBin() • _CheckMsgBox() • _CmdLineRaw() • _ContextMenu() • _ConvertLHWebColor()/_ConvertSHWebColor() • _DesktopDimensions() • _DisplayPassword() • _DotNet_Load()/_DotNet_Unload() • _Fibonacci() • _FileCompare() • _FileCompareContents() • _FileNameByHandle() • _FilePrefix/SRE() • _FindInFile() • _GetBackgroundColor()/_SetBackgroundColor() • _GetConrolID() • _GetCtrlClass() • _GetDirectoryFormat() • _GetDriveMediaType() • _GetFilename()/_GetFilenameExt() • _GetHardwareID() • _GetIP() • _GetIP_Country() • _GetOSLanguage() • _GetSavedSource() • _GetStringSize() • _GetSystemPaths() • _GetURLImage() • _GIFImage() • _GoogleWeather() • _GUICtrlCreateGroup() • _GUICtrlListBox_CreateArray() • _GUICtrlListView_CreateArray() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveCSV() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveHTML() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveTxt() • _GUICtrlListView_SaveXML() • _GUICtrlMenu_Recent() • _GUICtrlMenu_SetItemImage() • _GUICtrlTreeView_CreateArray() • _GUIDisable() • _GUIImageList_SetIconFromHandle() • _GUIRegisterMsg() • _GUISetIcon() • _Icon_Clear()/_Icon_Set() • _IdleTime() • _InetGet() • _InetGetGUI() • _InetGetProgress() • _IPDetails() • _IsFileOlder() • _IsGUID() • _IsHex() • _IsPalindrome() • _IsRegKey() • _IsStringRegExp() • _IsSystemDrive() • _IsUPX() • _IsValidType() • _IsWebColor() • _Language() • _Log() • _MicrosoftInternetConnectivity() • _MSDNDataType() • _PathFull/GetRelative/Split() • _PathSplitEx() • _PrintFromArray() • _ProgressSetMarquee() • _ReDim() • _RockPaperScissors()/_RockPaperScissorsLizardSpock() • _ScrollingCredits • _SelfDelete() • _SelfRename() • _SelfUpdate() • _SendTo() • _ShellAll() • _ShellFile() • _ShellFolder() • _SingletonHWID() • _SingletonPID() • _Startup() • _StringCompact() • _StringIsValid() • _StringRegExpMetaCharacters() • _StringReplaceWholeWord() • _StringStripChars() • _Temperature() • _TrialPeriod() • _UKToUSDate()/_USToUKDate() • _WinAPI_Create_CTL_CODE() • _WinAPI_CreateGUID() • _WMIDateStringToDate()/_DateToWMIDateString() • Au3 script parsing • AutoIt Search • AutoIt3 Portable • AutoIt3WrapperToPragma • AutoItWinGetTitle()/AutoItWinSetTitle() • Coding • DirToHTML5 • FileInstallr • FileReadLastChars() • GeoIP database • GUI - Only Close Button • GUI Examples • GUICtrlDeleteImage() • GUICtrlGetBkColor() • GUICtrlGetStyle() • GUIEvents • GUIGetBkColor() • Int_Parse() & Int_TryParse() • IsISBN() • LockFile() • Mapping CtrlIDs • OOP in AutoIt • ParseHeadersToSciTE() • PasswordValid • PasteBin • Posts Per Day • PreExpand • Protect Globals • Queue() • Resource Update • ResourcesEx • SciTE Jump • Settings INI • SHELLHOOK • Shunting-Yard • Signature Creator • Stack() • Stopwatch() • StringAddLF()/StringStripLF() • StringEOLToCRLF() • VSCROLL • WM_COPYDATA • More Examples...

Updated: 22/04/2018

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Okay, I have finished my script of deleting Folders that = 0 bytes. For some reason it doesn't always delete the empty directory. I don't know if it is the programs that recreate it after it is deleted or that it doesn't delete it in the first place. I have ran it on my main system and it hasn't messed anything up on my computer.

If anyone has any comments (good/bad) or suggestions please let me know!

RUN AT OWN RISK!!! THIS IS SUPPOSE TO DELETE FOLDERS FROM YOUR COMPUTER!!

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <WindowsConstants.au3>
#Include <GUIEdit.au3>
#include <RecFileListToArray.au3>
Opt("WinTitleMatchMode", 2)
Opt("TrayIconHide", 1)
GUICreate("Folder Clean Up", 773, 502, -1, -1)
$Edit = GUICtrlCreateEdit("", -1, -1, 823, 486, BitOR($ES_WANTRETURN, $WS_VSCROLL, $ES_AUTOVSCROLL, $ES_READONLY))
$Progress = GUICtrlCreateProgress(0, 482, 773, 20)
If @OSBuild >= 6000 Then _SendMessage(GUICtrlGetHandle($Progress), 0x0410, 2)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($Edit, 0x000000)
GUICtrlSetColor($Edit, 0x00ff00)
GUICtrlSetBkColor($Progress, 0x0000ff)
GUICtrlSetLimit($Edit, 9999999999)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW)
GUICtrlSetData($Edit, "Please Wait...", 1)
GUICtrlSetData($Edit, @CRLF & "Collecting Folder List - Could take up to 5-10 minutes", 1)
AdlibRegister("Reassure", 60000)
$Inventory = _RecFileListToArray("C:", "*", 2, 1, 1, 2)
GUICtrlSetData($Edit, @CRLF & "Checking Folder Sizes and starting removals...", 1)
AdlibUnRegister("Reassure")
$OldPercent = 0

For $i = 1 To (UBound($Inventory) -1)
$msg = GUIGetMsg()
If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then Exit
$Percent = Round($i/$Inventory[0]*100)
GUICtrlSetData($Progress, $Percent)
If $Percent > $OldPercent Then
WinSetTitle("Folder Clean Up", "", $Percent & "%" & " - Folder Clean Up")
$OldPercent = $Percent
EndIf
If DirGetSize($Inventory[$i]) = 0 Then
GUICtrlSetData($Edit, @CRLF & "Deleting Folder: " & $Inventory[$i], 1)
DirRemove($Inventory[$i], 1)
EndIf
Next

GUICtrlSetData($Edit, @CRLF & "Complete", 1)

While 1
$msg = GUIGetMsg()
If $msg = $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE Then ExitLoop
WEnd

Func Reassure()
GUICtrlSetData($Edit, @CRLF & "Still Collecting Folder List...", 1)
EndFunc
Edited by rogue5099

My projects: Inventory / Mp3 Inventory, Computer Stats

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From the help file for DirRemove:

Success: Returns 1.

Failure: Returns 0 if there is an error removing the directory (or if directory does not exist).

Check the return value from the function DirRemove, if it's 1 it was successful, if it's 0 it wasn't and proceed accordingly. BTW, randomly deleting "empty" folders is probably a bad idea because some of them may actually not be empty, they're just inaccessible to your script (permissions issues) and will probably return a size of 0. Edited by BrewManNH

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