Re: [Hampshire] Hidden folder

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Author: Daniel Pope
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Hidden folder
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:04:06PM +0000, Tim wrote:
> > > 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
>
> It is to do with Gwenview


It is not Gwenview specifically, it's the freedesktop.org thumbnail cache
draft spec. It's shared by lots of programs from both KDE and Gnome.

http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/delete.html

Dan