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The Tuesday 2007-01-16 at 02:44 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
> Have you ever checked to see what is inside a little insignificant directory
> named /.thumbnails inside your home directory?
Yep.
> In my /.thumbnails directory I found 12,695 files (thumbnails) totalling
> (only, thank heavens!) 241MB, with each file having a 32-char alphanumeric
> filename plus a 3-char extension (.png). And this is only 6 months worth (from
> July last year).
>
> A quick look shows that it would appear that everytime you look at a graphic -
> using what I haven't yet worked out - a thumbnail is generated here.
Right. Well, not every time. The first time it generates the thumbnail,
thereafter it loads it instead.
It could be konqueror, nautilus, the gimp... not sure.
> Nearly 12,700 files....... Are these all read in everytime you atart something
> like Midnight Commander or konqueror (file manager)?
No, simply when you are about to display a directory with images, the
browser checks that ~/.thumbnails folder just in case it can save time
loading the thumbnail instead of opening the image and calculate a
thumbnail for display.
I dont have that many, only 10 Mb (831 files). But it seems that some
gadget purging that directory wold be nice.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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