[opensuse] Did you about this GOTCHA?
Have you ever checked to see what is inside a little insignificant directory named /.thumbnails inside your home directory? I accidentally came across this little gem while looking for some screenshots I grabbed off the TV today. 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. Nearly 12,700 files....... Are these all read in everytime you atart something like Midnight Commander or konqueror (file manager)? Cheers. -- Hydrophobia, n: the fear of fire hydrants. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Basil Chupin wrote:
Have you ever checked to see what is inside a little insignificant directory named /.thumbnails inside your home directory?
yes, I did I had to, using digikam (the photo for kde), this folder went extremely big. I saw this with the file size display of konqueror (third icon, second line in konqueror) it's possible to replace it by a symlink to a better place jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Votez pour nous, merci - vote for us, thanks :-) http://musique.sfrjeunestalents.fr/artiste/Magic-Alliance/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
jdd wrote:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Have you ever checked to see what is inside a little insignificant directory named /.thumbnails inside your home directory?
yes, I did
I had to, using digikam (the photo for kde), this folder went extremely big. I saw this with the file size display of konqueror (third icon, second line in konqueror)
it's possible to replace it by a symlink to a better place
jdd
I am told that these thumbnails are created by konqueror. you can turn off that behavior. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 15 January 2007 12:35, Robert Lewis wrote:
I am told that
these thumbnails are created by konqueror. you can turn off that behavior.
They are also created by Digikam and I think also by Gqview and maybe others. No konqueror in use here but yet there were 421MB of thumbnails in .thumbnail. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFq+fYtTMYHG2NR9URApsKAJ9rUB6rfxzwpq2GFvTX3+GBCL9wJgCfZWIj 9R+0lSALPfuIMApwSLM8SpU= =zQw4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2007-01-16 at 02:44 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: ^^^^^ Mmmm.... Can you tell me the winning lottery number for tomorrow? I could make some nice money ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFq+hetTMYHG2NR9URAtz0AKCL8qNhloBIxNVn9nWDOMdBAhpJRwCfcdBQ yD4B8KFMB20Am2mILef/51o= =7huz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2007-01-15 14:47, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2007-01-16 at 02:44 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
^^^^^
Mmmm.... Can you tell me the winning lottery number for tomorrow? I could make some nice money ;-)
Australia is strange -- it always seems to be tomorrow there :-) -- The best way to accelerate a computer running Windows is at 9.81 m/s² -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 2007-01-15 14:47, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Tuesday 2007-01-16 at 02:44 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
^^^^^
Mmmm.... Can you tell me the winning lottery number for tomorrow? I could make some nice money ;-)
Australia is strange -- it always seems to be tomorrow there :-)
They also drive on the wrong side of the road. But since they're also upside down, it cancels out. ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-01-15 at 15:39 -0600, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Mmmm.... Can you tell me the winning lottery number for tomorrow? I could make some nice money ;-)
Australia is strange -- it always seems to be tomorrow there :-)
Oops! Pine confused me, it showed a big "Tomorrow" on the date field. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFrCvitTMYHG2NR9URAkHpAJ9LYjRI5nm0wbesd1LX7XTxZa598wCgkRWC m7WHzYFXS1wkcqlgen+mGqw= =MCZN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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