On 08/07/14 05:43, Peter wrote:
On 07/07/14 16:57, 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?
(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 :-) .)
What web browser are you using?
Firefox (v320a2)
Is it Konqueror or Rekonq? As far as I know, only local images viewed on your system using Dolphin, Konqueror or perhaps another file manager integrated into the DE, and seen either by having Preview mode operational in the folder or by hovering over / selecting the image file to cause a preview/tooltip to appear, have thumbnails stored in this directory, not anything seen on the web, unless of course you saved and/or manipulated a web image in some way. Perhaps using Konqueror as a web browser would cache web images too, though I've never been aware of that.
23MB sounds small to me.
That was 28MB...
My own has grown to enormous proportions at times and it's good to flush it out. But I do that manually. Would a tool like Bleachbit handle that? Somebody else commented that Gwenview has a function to delete thumbnails on exit. I have a feeling that function applies system-wide once set, meaning those viewed in Dolphin would get wiped too, but perhaps you'd have to open and close Gwenview on a regular schedule in order for the wipe to take effect.
The 'ADVANCED' Settings in Gwenview warn you that selecting this option to clean the cache will actually delete the /.thumbnails directory in your /home. So with this warning ringing in my ears I have just set Gwenview to zap the /.thumbnails directory :-) . 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