Empty directory

Last modified: 01 April 2025

Reports empty directories.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

EmptyDirectory
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | General

Available only from Code | Inspect Code or Code | Analyze Code | Run Inspection by Name and isn't reported in the editor.

Use the Only report empty directories located under a source folder option to have only directories under source roots reported.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Empty directory inspection, and the reference of their default values.

Only report empty directories located under a source folder

Not selected

Inspection Details

By default bundled with:

CLion 2025.1, DataGrip 2025.1, DataSpell 2025.1, GoLand 2025.1, IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, JetBrains Rider 2024.3, PhpStorm 2024.3, PyCharm 2025.1, Qodana for .NET 2024.3, Qodana for Go 2025.1, Qodana for JS 2025.1, Qodana for JVM 2024.3, Qodana for PHP 2024.3, Qodana for Ruby 2025.1, RubyMine 2025.1, WebStorm 2025.1

Can be installed with plugin:

IDEA CORE, 251.24734