Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux

[lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de>]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 07:26:42PM -0500, H.S. wrote:

> So my ~/.thumbnails is using 1.1 GB of memory. I am thinking of deleting
> this data unless there is some practical use for this. As others have
> posted, they do not really any different with or without this data so I
> am not sure whether the dir is really useful.

I'd be curious about the age of the files under .thumbnails ... How
old would a file there have to be for it to be still considered as
"useful"?

Other than that, making a symlink to /dev/null is probably a good
idea. Taking away permissions from that directory might eventually
tell you which programs use it if they present you with a message that
they can't access it ...


BTW:


lee@cat:~$ ls -la | grep "[0-9] \."
[...]
dr--------   2 lee  lee       4096 2008-11-25 14:00 .thumbnails
[...]
lee@cat:~$ ls -la .thumbnails/
ls: cannot access .thumbnails/.: Permission denied
ls: cannot access .thumbnails/..: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? .
d????????? ? ? ? ?                ? ..
lee@cat:~$ 


Is that supposed to look like this? Filenames that seem to contain
question marks are usually a bad sign ...


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