-----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