What app uses the /home/guest/.cache/thumbnails/large folder

[Ed_P]

The title says it all. In my folder I have about 7 MB of files from April 10 and April 16. Today is 2 months later. In my changes-exit.conf file I have:

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!/home/guest/.cache/thumbnails/large
!/home/guest/.cache/thumbnails/normal

so these files should not be saved to my save.dat file when I reboot Porteus but yet when I reboot they're still here.

[M. Eerie]

There are several programs/libraries writing to the thumbnails cache. Some of them are:

ffmpeg-thumbnailer, evince (documents viewer in general), gnome-font-viewer, totem, etc.

Have a look at:

/usr/share/thumbnailers

[Ed_P]

Thank you M.Erie. Are these apps included in Porteus 5.0? I've never used them directly ttbomk. All 200+ of the files are .png and appear to be photos of which half seem to be from my wife's cell phone.

But why are the cache files being kept?

[M. Eerie]

I can't say for Porteus 5.

This is what I have in Porteux:



If they are image thumbnails, they probably belong to the image viewer you use (or once used even if it is not installed now).

You can safely delete the cache, if it bothers you.

[Ed_P]

I agree with you that I can probably delete the cache but what bothers me at this point is how are they present when I exclude them with my changes-exit.conf file.

[donald]

In my changes-exit.conf file I have:

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!/home/guest/.cache/thumbnails/large
!/home/guest/.cache/thumbnails/normal

Hmm...I would not expect the photo thumbnails to be gone -- after deleting them --
if I exclude the folder from being processed.

[itrukrakso]

hi,
For me the file manager Thunar creates this directory and puts the thumbnails there.
Can be disabled via settings.

[Ed_P]

Hmm...I would not expect the photo thumbnails to be gone -- after deleting them --
if I exclude the folder from being processed.

The process they are being excluded from is the one where Porteus backups up all changes to be saved for the next ISO boot. If they are not being backed up where in the ISO are they coming from?

For me the file manager Thunar creates this directory and puts the thumbnails there.
Can be disabled via settings.

Thank you itrukrakso, I will definitely check that out.

Added in 4 hours 22 minutes 52 seconds:
Found the source: /mnt/live/memory/changes/home/guest/.cache/thumbnails/large

Apparently my changes-exit.conf change was after the folder had already been saved!

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I do not see a cache setting in Cinnamon's Nemo file manager.

[ncmprhnsbl]

I do not see a cache setting in Cinnamon's Nemo file manager.

not cache, thumbnails
nemo>edit>preferences>preview>show thumbnails :: choices: local files only(default) or yes (which would include mounted directories) or no (none at all)
also: the "inherit thumbnail visibility from parent" (parent directory i assume)
and: Only for files smaller than <size> (referring to the file size of the image)
from what i see, nemo only generates thumbnails for directories you enter, (you'll notice this when entering a dir that has none previously generated)
so unless you have a bunch of images in /home/guest, the cache should be empty of thumbnails at startup.
there might be some deeper setting in dconf that handles 'file open' dialogs which it looks like generate their own thumbnails.

[Ed_P]

Thanks ncmp, I did see those preferences but nothing relating to the folder. I've booted in safe mode and deleted the cache files in the save.dat file.