How do I avoid my ~/.kde/tmp-sda2-enc/.kio_thumbnails* using all my free space

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Monday 02 August 2010, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Monday 02 August 2010, user1 wrote:
> > I am using 10.04 encrypted installed on one partition of 30 gb
> > and suddenly the partition ran out of free space.
> > 
> > Then I ran "filelight /" and it showed that my
> > /home/username/.kde/tmp-sda2-enc/thumbnails* was filled with
> > some 10 gb thumbnails in various folders.
> > 
> > How do I avoid this directory filling up again probably emptying
> > it after every shutdown.
> 
> If it isn't important to you that those thumbnails are stored, you
> could simply make the directory read-only.

Actually, if you probably need to remove the directory's executable 
bits, that way no program can enter it.

<snip> 

  --Reinhold