Re: Erase cache, clean registry in Linux
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:42, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:09:27PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
>> And a lot of programs (Dolphin, Nautilus, gthumb, eog, etc) have thumbnail
>> caches, which are not always cleanable from in the application. Luckily,
>> many of these programs now share the FD.O standard ~/.thumbnails/
>> directory, instead of each program doing its own thing.
>
> That shouldn't be there in the first place. You end up with hundreds
> of megabytes of totally useless thumbnails
They are not useless, they keep thumbnail display times reasonable.
I have used programs that generate thumbnails on the fly, per session
and it is slow and annoying.
> that even cannot be
> displayed with eog or gimp --- yesterday, I removed 350MB from
> .thumbnails and tried to disable it by leaving the directory empty
> with permissions to read and write it removed. If that doesn't help,
> I'll change ownership to root, and if that doesn't help either, I
> might have to resort to enable ACLs or to making the directory a
> symlink to a partition that is mounted r/o ... I also removed a number
> of useless directories ".xvpics" that were all over the place.
>
> Whatever application puts thumbnails or something else somewhere
> without telling the user about it should remove it when it's no longer
> needed.
They are needed to keep display times reasonable. All programs
should use the same cache, and many do. If you have a favorite
program that does not use ~/.thumbnails, you should probably
file a bug.
> That's probably difficult to do because they would have to
> monitor all the images they create thumbnails from and modify or
> remove the thumbnails as the images are altered or deleted --- but
> that's not my problem. If they can't do it, they must not create these
> files.
well, there are some basic suggestions in the spec for deleting:
http://jens.triq.net/thumbnail-spec/delete.html
There are plenty of ways that a thumbnail could avoid deletion
with these rough guidelines. However, I am not that worried about
it. Disk space is abundant and cheap, and I can always delete it,
or set a cron job to delete every so often.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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