Re: [tlug] Tip of the day: thumbnail evidence

["Mike J" <astro_mikel@example.com>]

Yeah i stumbled across this when i backed up my laptop.....i was very 
surprised.

-michael.

> From: "Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>
> Reply-To: Tokyo Linux Users Group <tlug@example.com>
> To: "Tokyo Linux Users Group" <tlug@example.com>
> Subject: Re: [tlug] Tip of the day: thumbnail evidence
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:57:24 +0900
>
> On 11/07/07, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:
>
> > I mistyped ~/.thunderbird and found myself in .thumbnails. I had a poke
> > around and found it has kept a record of every image I've looked at in
> > the past 2.5 years! I dunno if it is just for eog (my main image viewer)
> > or all gnome apps, but the paranoid among you might want to clean it out
> > regularly!
>
> : jglover@example.com; find /home/jglover/.thumbnails -type f
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/ef21db2c85466af2289095e3d6689b31.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/7e76e7e07ce154ca9d49ad0766fae8ae.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/cfd502a75a17f2f3aae3c174697ff875.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/373c5e51268e38322f347791f29b2a32.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/94f2664edf8a9cbc3860cc4fab70d9bd.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/7e99844f6849b0a090231a7667d42a91.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/e69b82eee4a288fd54f66c3f4ffb11f6.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/7a520e7a95a38e03ea8436c175b8789c.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/780702d8ce75386bf4f8f3a5bf762b90.png
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/918d7094ac4750161cd4881006f295f3.png
> : jglover@example.com; for i in `find /home/jglover/.thumbnails -type f`;
> do display $i; done
>
>
> I think it is the Gimp. Lemme check:
>
>
> : jglover@example.com; mv .thumbnails .thumbnails.BAK
> : jglover@example.com; gimp tmp/dilbert-unix.png &
> [1] 22235
> : jglover@example.com; find /home/jglover/.thumbnails -type f
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/241a8fd3fff36d1ac906909b100df44e.png
> : jglover@example.com; find /home/jglover/.thumbnails -type f | xargs ls -l
> -rw------- 1 jglover users 8695 2007-07-12 12:54
> /home/jglover/.thumbnails/normal/241a8fd3fff36d1ac906909b100df44e.png
>
>
> Indeed.
>
> I would guess that GTK apps (GTK == "the Gimp ToolKit") probably do it
> as well. gqview, for example, does this:
>
>
> : jglover@example.com; cd tmp/
> : jglover@example.com; rm -rf /home/jglover/.thumbnails
> : jglover@example.com; gqview
> Creating GQview dir:/home/jglover/.gqview
> Creating GQview dir:/home/jglover/.gqview/collections
> Creating GQview dir:/home/jglover/.gqview/thumbnails
> Creating GQview dir:/home/jglover/.gqview/metadata
>
>
> Which, IMO, is nicer than ~/.tumbnails
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Josh
>
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