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Empty directory

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 ID: EmptyDirectory

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

Option ID:

onlyReportDirectoriesUnderSourceRoots

Default value:

Not selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection EmptyDirectory

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025