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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la | grep "[0-9] \." [...] dr-------- 2 lee lee 4096 2008-11-25 14:00 .thumbnails [...] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la .thumbnails/ ls: cannot access .thumbnails/.: Permission denied ls: cannot access .thumbnails/..: Permission denied total 0 d????????? ? ? ? ? ? . d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Is that supposed to look like this? Filenames that seem to contain question marks are usually a bad sign ... -- "Don't let them, daddy. Don't let the stars run down." http://adin.dyndns.org/adin/TheLastQ.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]