How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails

[Marco Guazzone]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
> Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
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> Considering I log in about once a month, that won't do for me.
>
> I have a cronjob that runs this script I got some years ago:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;
>
> But I don't even remember how I set up the cronjob to run daily!  It is, as
> this system is rather clean in its ~/.thumbnails
>
>

I use the excellent tool bleachbit (http://bleachbit.sourceforget.net)
(rpms are provided) which frees you from many temp/auxiliary files

First time I ran I got back 1GB of space!!

Cheers,

-- Marco