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Bug 334052

Summary:

There is no way to filter Empty Directories in Package Explorer View

Product:

[Eclipse Project] JDT

Reporter:

Matt <matt>

Component:

Assignee:

JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>

Status:

CLOSED DUPLICATE

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

daniel_megert, francisu, remy.suen

Version:

3.6.1

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
A sample project that illustrates the bug	none

Description Matt

2011-01-11 21:52:06 EST

Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

There should be a way to filter empty directories as a result of a filter.  When a filter set has been defined that renders a directory empty, the directory should not show up in the package explorer view.

This is different than filtering directories like '.svn' or maven's target, or filtering empty packages. It's more trying to clean up empty directories trees that show up as a result of filter rules.

Context- We have a generic project in our workspace that uses filters to ignore non text based files(mp3s, jpgs, etc). It allows us to quickly edit our files in eclipse. The problem is because of the filters there are a lot of empty folders present. If eclipse can ignore any empty folders due to filters it would make the project cleaner.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a project
2. create a folder in the project
3. add files
4. create a Resource filter on the folder to filter all the files
5. the files in the folder are gone, but the folder is not

Comment 1 Matt

2011-01-11 21:53:14 EST

Created attachment 186596 [details]
A sample project that illustrates the bug

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2011-01-12 10:40:27 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created attachment 186596 [details]
> A sample project that illustrates the bug
That doesn't seem to contain any resource filters.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 22202 ***