Originally Posted by gomezz:
“Presumably that deletes the folder too? Which may or may not be what is wanted (for example I have two folders called FILMS and SAVED which I do not want to delete even if I empty them).”
Indeed but by far the majority of anyone wanting to empty a folder it will be the contents of a series recording reservation.
In this case selecting all it's contents and deleting them will also delete the folder (unless of course you turn the action off).
Opening the folder and selecting all it's contents restricts multiple selection to the contents of a single folder afaik.
Using the wen interface may allow a more flexible selection capability of multiple recordings, not played with it enough yet to find out