Author: Peter Salisbury Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hidden folder
2008/11/27 Tim <xendistar@???>: >
> I have a hidden folder in my home folder called .thumbnail, within this folder
> there are two other folders called large and normal. As the name suggests it
> holds thumbnail pictures of pictures I guess I have opened on my system. Now
> this folder currently stands at 1.6gb in size, some 31600+ files
>
> So my question is, do I need this folder?? can I control its size and if so
> how??
>
> I am running Mepis 7 with KDE 3.5.8 if that helps
>
> Tim
You can delete the lot. KDE will re-generate the thumbnails as
required. I've not found a way of limiting it but there may well be a
way.
