If you eject the sdcard and shove it back in, isn't the unneeded
thumbnail deleted?

-Ravi

On Mar 10, 2:33 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> In Android cupcake release, both image and video support micro
> thumbnail (96*96), and micro thumbnails are stored in one database
> file, which is under location /sdcard/dcim/.thumbnails.
>
> The thumbnail database file for micro thumbnail consists of blocks,
> the size of each block is 10k bytes. That is, every micro thumbnail
> (96*96) occupys one block. Application can use the image  or video ID
> from media database to locate the micro thumbnail in thumbnail
> database.  The issue is that when the image or video is deleted from
> file system, the occupied block in micro thumbnail database file is
> not freed. So there may be lots of dead blocks, which accupied file
> system memory and are never freed. The bad situation is that the dead
> blocks may accupy hundreds of magebytes.
>
> Will this issue be fixed in later android release?
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