On 08/07/14 01:24, Bob Williams wrote:
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On 07/07/14 15:57, Basil Chupin wrote:
Before C left us he asked the question about how to clean up the 'temp' directories which, in his case, consumed a large volume of his disk space. This problem was solved.
But, what - if anything - cleans out, or should clean out, the /.thumbnails directory in /home?
I had forgotten about this until just now and when I looked in this directory it was 23MB big - so, using mc, I deleted the contents (which is what I did in the past).
But is there some automatic way of clearing this directory?
Gwenview has a setting to delete thumbnails on exit.
So I discovered thanks to you - and I have just set it to zap the /.thumbnails directory in /home :-) .
(The contents of this directory are rather dangerous because every pic/graphic you look at on the web or which is on your system has a thumbnail created in /.thumbnails. And whoever has access to your /home directory can look at what you have been looking at - like all those stimulating and exiting naughty-type pictures - of dogs and cats and fish of course :-) .)
Sort out your ownerships/permissions.
Ownerships/permissions are useless if you walk away from your computer and do not, say, Lock the Screen. Nor are they of any use if the Administrator wants access to your computer. But, in any case, I see little point in having this directory. What's the point in generating a thumbnail for a graphic over and over again if I were to view that same graphic every day for a week? And coupled with this, while I can see SOME method in the madness of having a list of Recently Used Documents (text, pix, etc) and Applications in Gecko>Recently Used I cannot see what *real* value this facility offers. (And this info is stored in another /home directory: /.kde[4]/share/apps/RecentDocuments .) (But mind you, having the /.thumbnails and the RecentDocuments thingies is a great thing for parents to see what the kids are doing - or for the wife to see why the hubby is staying up late into the night after wifey goes to bed 8-) .) BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.3-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org