Patent ID: 8060833

Claim:
A method of managing groups of folders on a computer, comprising the steps of: presenting a graphical user interface (GUI) view to a user, said view identifying a multitude of folders, wherein a plurality of said folders are empty of documents and some of the folders are not empty of documents, and in said view, the empty folders are designated in a defined manner; showing in the GUI view a box including an indication, for each of the multitude of folders, of the number of documents in said each of the folders, said number of documents ranging from zero to more than one; said user choosing a group of said multitude of folders by interacting with the GUI, said group comprised of said plurality of said empty folders and one or more of the folders having one or more documents; the user inputting to the computer a single instruction to delete all of said folders in said group including said plurality of empty folders and all of said one or more of the folders in the group having one or more documents; and in response to said inputting the single instruction from the user, the computer deleting all of the folders in said group including all of said plurality of empty folders and the one or more folders in said group having one or more documents, as a single operation, removing said one or more documents from said one or more folders in said group, and storing the documents removed from said one or more folders in a predefined file thereby deleting all of the folders in the group of folders without deleting any of the files in said group of folders.