On Friday 19 May 2006 01:42, Tango Echo wrote: > 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... >
Digikam also stores its generated previews in .thumbnails, and if you switch between image preview sizes in digikam or konqi's preview then a new subfolder gets generated in .thumbnails for that size preview, so you can get different size duplictes. If you move or rename folders or images and then reopen them, then kde has lost the link between the image and the thumbnail so will have to regenerate it, another cause for duplicates. Note that these are previews only, merely stored for speed convenience instead of regenerating them every time you view a folder of digikam view. If you delete them, then reopen digikam or konqi in that folder, then the thumbnails/previews will just be regenerated again, so it is a very low risk move. The only problem I can see is if somehow you have pointed digikam to use .thumnails as your images directory. You could also just list all the files by date created and delete anything older than say 1 year. John. ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
