Backup creating empty folders

Questions about Cobian Reflector
AndyBloke
Posts: 8
Joined: 03 Nov 2021, 14:22

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by AndyBloke »

Thanks for the information.

'Never ignore..' was not checked, but after running a backup with verbose logging it confirmed what I had suspected. Because I am backing up a list of folders from various drives, the top level folder will always be created, although all of the empty subdirectories are removed from it. So, for example, my Photos folder will, after seven days, have one full backup folder with all subdirectories and files, and, given that there is no change in seven days, seven empty folders ('Photos (Incremental)'). It would be nice if these otherwise empty folders could also be removed.
Screenshot 2022-01-07 095547.png
Screenshot 2022-01-07 095547.png (6.06 KiB) Viewed 2870 times
Screenshot 2022-01-07 095715.png
Screenshot 2022-01-07 095715.png (4 KiB) Viewed 2870 times

I've also noticed that my 'Downloads' folder, which I have situated in the root of one of my drives, gets a full backup each time and no incremental, and none are marked as such (no date, and no Full/ Incremental flag).
Screenshot 2022-01-07 100004.png
Screenshot 2022-01-07 100004.png (3.7 KiB) Viewed 2870 times
I have absolute paths turned on, but the behaviour with the creation of the top level (backup) folders was the same.
User avatar
cobian
Site Admin
Posts: 4470
Joined: 31 Oct 2020, 01:25
Location: Sweden
Contact:

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by cobian »

I see... so we are talking only about the root folder...
--
Luis Cobian
Cobian Backup's creator
satchmo67
Posts: 6
Joined: 15 Jan 2022, 23:06

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by satchmo67 »

cobian wrote: 03 Dec 2021, 19:11 Advanced, ignore empty directories will do it.
Hi Luis.

Has this setting been removed? I can't find it at this location (or any other options).

Image saved at http://users.tpg.com.au/badger01/Cobian.png

Thanks. :)
User avatar
cobian
Site Admin
Posts: 4470
Joined: 31 Oct 2020, 01:25
Location: Sweden
Contact:

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by cobian »

Still there.
Attachments
Untitled-1.jpg
Untitled-1.jpg (127.31 KiB) Viewed 2833 times
--
Luis Cobian
Cobian Backup's creator
satchmo67
Posts: 6
Joined: 15 Jan 2022, 23:06

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by satchmo67 »

cobian wrote: 16 Jan 2022, 01:13Still there.
Ahh, I see. It's the Advanced Menu for a backup task. I was looking at the Advanced Menu for the app.

Thanks for clearing that up for me.
Folkien
Posts: 3
Joined: 09 Feb 2022, 11:16

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by Folkien »

I have the exact same problem. Same configuration and also root directories that are empty are not deleted.
Is it a bug or is it a known "normal" behaviour ?
Is there a way to configure the program to get rid of these empty root directories ?

It would be great to have that functionnality working. In my memory the Gravity version of Cobian Backup was removing the root dir when it was empty.

thx for the help !
Last edited by Folkien on 09 Feb 2022, 11:29, edited 1 time in total.
User avatar
cobian
Site Admin
Posts: 4470
Joined: 31 Oct 2020, 01:25
Location: Sweden
Contact:

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by cobian »

Root directories are never deleted as far as I'm aware.
--
Luis Cobian
Cobian Backup's creator
gvd
Posts: 127
Joined: 05 Oct 2021, 16:05
Location: Belgium

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by gvd »

As far as I remember, Backup did not leave empty root directories behind.
Gabriel
User avatar
cobian
Site Admin
Posts: 4470
Joined: 31 Oct 2020, 01:25
Location: Sweden
Contact:

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by cobian »

No it didn't... different behaviors... I'll try to mimic this in the future.
--
Luis Cobian
Cobian Backup's creator
User avatar
cobian
Site Admin
Posts: 4470
Joined: 31 Oct 2020, 01:25
Location: Sweden
Contact:

Re: Backup creating empty folders

Post by cobian »

Fixed as an option (sigh) for the next version.
--
Luis Cobian
Cobian Backup's creator
Post Reply