Can't delete empty folders from NAS

Hi all
I have Mac Book Pro running Mavericks, and a WD World Book running as a NAS on my private network.
Recently, I've been restructuring my files and folders on both my mac and hard drive.
Having moved a large number of files across from the HD to my Mac, I now have a load of empty folders on my HD that I cannot seem to get rid of!
I have tried all the usual things, and also the rm -r command but to no avail. It says that the folder does not exist!
One other strange thing that is happening on the HD, when I 'Get Info', the top username in permissions is just saying 'fetching' and never resolves.
Does anyone have any suggestions??
Let me know if you need more info
Thanks in advance

Yes, it one of the problems you can encounter using Launchpad at the moment. You can try to drag another app in the folder and empty the folder again. Sometimes that folder disappears, sometimes not.
There's a way to rebuild Launchpad but I won't not recommend that. It will bring Launchpad back in the default-setting, so you would have to start rearranging all over again, at the risk of having the same problems all over again.
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