topic Re: Delete empty Feature Classes from GDB in Data Management Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/delete-empty-feature-classes-from-gdb/m-p/273869#M15747 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Probably the easiest way to do this, would be to use some python coding. You may want to move this thread to the <A href="https://community.esri.com/space/2145">Python</A> space. Please remove any duplicate posts of this question.</P><P></P><P>You can loop through all the workspaces based on a list of gdb's or recursively loop (walk) through folders. Read the content (list featureclasses) and for each featureclass do a count on the features and delete those with 0 features.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:13:54 GMT XanderBakker 2015-04-10T02:13:54Z Delete empty Feature Classes from GDB https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/delete-empty-feature-classes-from-gdb/m-p/273868#M15746 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello,</P><P></P><P>I have many feature classes in multiple gdbs that have empty feature classes. Is there anyway to automate a process to look through each .gdb, find the empty feature classes, and to delete the empty feature classes from the .gdb?</P><P></P><P>Thank you for your time all!</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Tom</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 09 Apr 2015 20:17:46 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/delete-empty-feature-classes-from-gdb/m-p/273868#M15746 ThomasWhite4 2015-04-09T20:17:46Z Re: Delete empty Feature Classes from GDB https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/delete-empty-feature-classes-from-gdb/m-p/273869#M15747 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Probably the easiest way to do this, would be to use some python coding. You may want to move this thread to the <A href="https://community.esri.com/space/2145">Python</A> space. Please remove any duplicate posts of this question.</P><P></P><P>You can loop through all the workspaces based on a list of gdb's or recursively loop (walk) through folders. Read the content (list featureclasses) and for each featureclass do a count on the features and delete those with 0 features.</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Apr 2015 02:13:54 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/delete-empty-feature-classes-from-gdb/m-p/273869#M15747 XanderBakker 2015-04-10T02:13:54Z Re: Delete empty Feature Classes from GDB https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/delete-empty-feature-classes-from-gdb/m-p/273870#M15748 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Thank you for the guidance and redirection!</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:04:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/data-management-questions/delete-empty-feature-classes-from-gdb/m-p/273870#M15748 ThomasWhite4 2015-04-10T14:04:14Z