--- "H.J.Bathoorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 18 May 2006 01:48 am, Tango Echo wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm running Mandriva 2006 and have noticed a > new problem: my .thumbnail > > folder off of /home has bloated to the size of > over 45 GB!! I use Digikam, > > but highly doubt that I have *that* many pictures. > Reviewing some of the > > pictures showed random and duplicate images from > the hard drive (example, > > images from Neverwinter Nights PC game). There > are pictures of my 4 month > > son in there so I need to approach this situation > with care. > > > > 1) Any ideas how this happended and how to > prevent it in the future? > > > > 2) How can I reduce the size short of manually > going thru every picture, > > but also being able to keep my really important > ones? > > > > Hopefully I gave enough info... I will provide > more if you guys need it. > > > > Thanks in advance!!! > > It's to do with "icon previews" enabled in konq. > Each time you move a picture, change it or rename it > (this includes inserting > cdroms with pics and movies) an icon gets generated. > Hence the "doubles" you > can see in there. > > You can delete the lot and of the ones you've still > got will generate a new > preview when viewing the directory they are in. > > The files in .thumbnails are only small copies of > the original so none of > those are lost or harmed. > > You can prevent all this by turning off "icon > preview" in konqueror or simply > keep ".thumbnails" small manually by deleting the > lot every now and > then........that's what I do. > > Btw check the ~/tmp/kde-"your user name here"/ > directory. It'll prolly be > bloated as well if you use a lot of multimedia. It > doesn't always get emptied > when logging out or rebooting. You can safely remove > the content in a running > session if needed. ;-) > -- > Good luck, > HarM > ____________________________________________________
Lot's of good info! Thanks! I'll definitely look into disabling the icon preview or at least keeping tabs on it. There is certainly a duplicating image problem. I did some further research last night and found that under the .thumbnails I had a large and normal directory. The "large" (and indeed was the larger one) was jam packed with folders called recup_dir.# Some research on this appears that PHOTOREC, a photo recovery application, may have done this. I do recall running the application some time ago when my Digikam upgrade failed. Here's what I'm thinking, and maybe you guys could tell me if it sounds sane or not. Perhaps I could export all my photos from Digikam to CD, delete the .thumbnails directory, then import the images back into Digikam. Would that work or could that break a few things? I'm just dreading going through 46GB of images... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
