How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails
Tim
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Wed Oct 28 16:17:39 UTC 2009
Tim:
>> ~]$ du -h .thumbnails/
>> 560M .thumbnails/large
>> 361M .thumbnails/normal
>>
>> Sounds extreme, but then I do a lot of photography work.
Todd Zullinger:
> When disk costs fractions of pennies, is that amount of space even a
> concern?
It is, when you don't want to keep wasting money on more hard drives, or
you're using a laptop. And I accidentally truncated that pasting.
du -h .thumbnails/
560M .thumbnails/large
361M .thumbnails/normal
1.9M .thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory
2.0M .thumbnails/fail
923M .thumbnails/
It's keeping "failed" thumbnails. I can't see a good reason for doing
that. And that's a rather huge amount of drive space.
> I believe recent nautilus will try to clean up old/invalid thumbnails,
> but I don't use nautilus so I've not tested that.
Doesn't seem to.
> It is pretty simple to whip up a script to delete thumbnails for files
> that don't exist anymore.
In my case, it's probably sufficient to just delete them at the end of a
session. I usually only care about rapid browsing during a session, the
start-up isn't that important.
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