Re: Thumbnail cache maintenance

[John Spray <jcs116 york ac uk>]

On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 03:12 -0300, Pablo Perez Benitez wrote:
> Thanks to kdirstat's treemap view of my home directory I noticed my 
> Nautilus thumbnail cache is about 330MB big. I wonder if I should delete 
> everything inside my .thumbnails folder or if there is other recommended 
> procedure to clean/reset the thumbnail cache.

rm -rf ~/.thumbnails works fine, in my experience.

UI for doing this seems to be disapproved of in favour of having
nautilus do it invisibly; afaik nobody's working on this though.

See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150483
and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141073

John