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maxpoweron
December 18th, 2008, 02:28 AM
Is there a way to limit the size in MB of .thumbnails?
gettinoriginal
December 18th, 2008, 06:14 AM
The only answer I know of is to change them in gimp. :p
maxpoweron
December 18th, 2008, 02:16 PM
I don't think I explained myself clearly. I want to set a total folder size of .thumbnail to 20 MB. When the folder reaches that size, the oldest files will be deleted. Like setting the cache size in IE or Firefox.
gettinoriginal
December 20th, 2008, 10:13 PM
Sorry to take so long to respond. Make sure that configure editor is installed from synaptic. Go to applications, system tools, and initiate it. Desktop > Gnome > Thumbnail_cache, highlight it, right click, edit. Hope that helps :P
maxpoweron
December 22nd, 2008, 11:04 AM
That worked! Thanks for the info.
FreddieMacelvoy
February 6th, 2013, 11:26 PM
The key was set to 512 in config editor, but my .thumbnails was 916MB. Any thoughts why?

-Fred
wildmanne39
February 7th, 2013, 12:34 AM
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