On Friday 28 November 2008 09:56:12 Daniel Pope wrote:
> 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
Thanks for the info gentleman. Maybe the section regarding clearing the
thumbnails is relevant only to clearing those that Gwenview makes. I will
keep an eye on it and see how it grows.
In an ideal world there would be some setting that would limit the size\amount
of thumbnails it can store.
Tim
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