When calling delete content, version of content is also deleted (introduced in 5.5 too, MAGNOLIA-6784: https://git.magnolia-cms.com/projects/PLATFORM/repos/main/browse/magnolia-core/src/main/java/info/magnolia/cms/core/version/MgnlVersioningNodeWrapper.java#111). So there are many many empty folders in version workspace now.

Solution: We could improve Purge Version Command to prune empty version folders

Step to reproduce:

• Create page with name 'test' in pages app
• Publish that 'test' page
• Check version of it is created in JCR-Browser app/magnolia-mgnlVersion
• Delete 'test' and publish deleted- page in pages app
• Open JCR-Browser app/magnolia-mgnlVersion and see the 'test' version is gone but there are remaining empty folders nodes