Limit size of .thumbnails folder

Bill Marcum bmarcum at iglou.com
Tue Dec 20 22:12:26 UTC 2005


On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:55:07 +0100, Luca Manganelli 
  <luca76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have discovered that my .thumbnails folder is like as 14MB. There
> were plenty of images (many old and deleted). I think that .thumbnails
> folder is managed by Nautilus, but I cannot find an option to limit
> this folder size. Where is it?
>
You could set up a cron job with a command such as

find ~/.thumbnails -type f -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

(this would delete any files that have not been accessed in the last 7 
days).

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