Re: [Hampshire] Hidden folder

2008/11/27 Tim <xendistar@???>:
> On Thursday 27 November 2008 21:35:52 Peter Salisbury wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> HTH, Peter
>
> Having looked on Google and found nothing posted on here then went back to
> google and found the answer..........oh well!
>
> It is to do with Gwenview, if you open it up click on settings >> configure
> gwenview, towards the bottom of the page there is an option to empty cache on
> exit, tick the box, then click apply. There is also the option to empty the
> cache as well there and then.
>
> I don't know if you have gwenview on your system but I have so we will see
> what happens
>
> Tim

No gwenview on my system. Some of my thumbnails go back years, so
thank you for making me look! I found online a recommendation to put

$find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

into a cron job, though I think +30 would work fine for me.

ATB, Peter