If you have accounts in OS X that the system stubbornly refuses to remove, there are some things you can try. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

Windows only: Free, open-source application Remove Empty Directories, aka RED, scans any folder you point it to for empty or partially empty folders and helps you remove them. With advanced options ...

Remove Empty Directories is a small freeware program that hunts out and deletes empty folders to clean your system up. It works well, but would be better with a restore feature. One of the downsides ...

As you undoubtedly know, the rmdir command will remove an empty directory but, if a directory contains files, it will balk and report “Directory not empty”. To remove directories which are in fact ...

Deleting directories and files is one of the most basic, but important functions in any operating system. In Linux, if you have a windowed environment running, you can locate and delete files using a ...

There are many ways to clean up or remove files, including using commands such as rm (remove), rmdir (remove directory), shred, and unlink. The rm (remove) command is the most obvious way to remove ...