How to delete empty folders after import?

[StefanDorschu]

When i import using the "move" option, beets leaves behind a lot of empty folders. Is there a way to clean that up using beets? Or is there a useful script to do so?

Thank for your help,

Stefan

[jackwilsdon]

Are you on Windows or Linux?

For Windows, you could try one of the answers from this Super User question: https://superuser.com/questions/39674/recursively-delete-empty-directories-in-windows

For Linux, you could try find /path/to/your/music/folder -type d -empty -delete which will delete empty folders.

To run these automatically, take a look at the hook plugin: https://docs.beets.io/en/latest/plugins/hook.html

[StefanDorschu]

Thank you for your reply!

[sampsyo]

Oddly, the importer is actually supposed to do this automatically, out of the box. The clutter config option has a little more detail:
https://beets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/config.html#clutter

Namely, non-root directories that seem to be empty should be pruned. If you type beet import /path/to/dir, /path/to/dir itself will never be removed, but empty descendants of that should be deleted. If they're not, there could be invisible files in there that are preventing beets from considering them "empty."

[StefanDorschu]

You are right, thank you :)