cleaning up home directory?

[Scott Allen]

On 27 January 2011 20:27, Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I see thousands of files in the ./thumbnails directory and sub-directories.
>
> It looks like pure garbage and I would think a hit on performance.

<http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/index.html>

> Should I want to clean this up?

I don't know of any dedicated programs or methods to maintain
thumbnails but the Geeqie image viewer includes a tool.
Edit -> Preferences -> Thumbnail maintenance...

>From here you can clean up or clear the shared thumbnail cache. I
suspect a clean up will check if the image file still exists for each
thumbnail and then delete the thumbnail if not.

For Ubuntu, Geeqie is available from the Software Centre.

-- 
Scott
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