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36 <p><a href="reference_thumbnails.html">Previous</a>
37 </p>
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40 <td width="33%">
41 <p class="gq-management-1">Cache and Data Management - Reference</p>
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44 <td width="33%">
45 <p class="gq-management-2"><a href="credits.html">Next</a>
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53 <hr />
54
55 <h1>11.4 Cache and Data Maintenance</h1>
56
57 <p>Thumbnails and other cached data can be maintained from the dialog accessible by selecting Thumbnail maintenance from the Edit menu of the main window.</p>
58
59 <p><br />
60 <br />
61 </p>
62
63 <p><u>Geeqie thumbnail cache</u>
64 </p>
65
66 <p class="gq-management-5">The utilities listed here operate on the Geeqie caching mechanism. This also includes the data cached for the <a href="image_search_search.html">search</a> and <a href="image_search_finding_duplicates.html">find duplicates</a> utilities.</p>
67
68 <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Clean up</b>: Removes thumbnails and data for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.</p>
69
70 <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Clear cache:</b> Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/thumbnails.</p>
71
72 <p><br />
73 <br />
74 </p>
75
76 <p><u>Shared thumbnail cache</u>
77 </p>
78
79 <p class="gq-management-5">The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</p>
80
81 <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Clean up:</b> Removes thumbnails for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.</p>
82
83 <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Clear cache:</b> Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</p>
84
85 <p><br />
86 <br />
87 </p>
88
89 <p><u>Create thumbnails</u>
90 </p>
91
92 <p class="gq-management-5">This utility will render thumbnails using the current thumbnail caching mechanism, as determined in <a href="options_general.html">preferences</a>.</p>
93
94 <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Render:</b> Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</p>
95
96 <p class="gq-management-6"><b>Include subfolders:</b> Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</p>
97
98 <p class="gq-management-6"><b>Store thumbnails local to source images:</b> The generated thumbnails will be stored local to the source images, if you have the permissions to write to the folder containing the images.</p>
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100 <p><br />
101 <br />
102 </p>
103
104 <p><u>Metadata</u>
105 </p>
106
107 <p class="gq-management-5">This utility operates on the data store for <a href="sidebars_keywords.html">keywords and comments</a> located in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/metadata.</p>
108
109 <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Clean up:</b> Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p>
110
111 <p><br />
112 <br />
113 </p>
114
115 <p><u>File locations</u>
116 </p>
117
118 <p class="gq-management-5">The various file locations and their use are listed below. <i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i> refers to your home folder and <i>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</i> refers to the folder containing the image.</p>
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120 <div class="gq-management-4">
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125 <tr valign="top">
126 <th width="50%">
127 <p>Folder or File name</p>
128 </th>
129
130 <th width="50%">
131 <p>Description</p>
132 </th>
133 </tr>
134
135 <tr>
136 <td colspan="2" width="100%" valign="top">
137 <p class="gq-management-7">Thumbnails</p>
138 </td>
139 </tr>
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141 <tr valign="top">
142 <td width="50%">
143 <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.thumbnails</p>
144 </td>
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146 <td width="50%">
147 <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
148 </td>
149 </tr>
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151 <tr valign="top">
152 <td width="50%">
153 <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p>
154 </td>
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156 <td width="50%">
157 <p>Classic Geeqie thumbnail cache folder. Also used to cache data used for the search and find duplicates utilities to increase the speed for subsequent searches.</p>
158 </td>
159 </tr>
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162 <td width="50%">
163 <p><i>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</i><span class="gq-management-8">thumbnails</span>
164 </p>
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167 <td width="50%">
168 <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
169 </td>
170 </tr>
171
172 <tr>
173 <td colspan="2" width="100%" valign="top">
174 <p><b>Metadata</b> <span class="gq-management-9">(keywords and comments)</span></p>
175 </td>
176 </tr>
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178 <tr valign="top">
179 <td width="50%">
180 <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
181 </td>
182
183 <td width="50%">
184 <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
185 </td>
186 </tr>
187
188 <tr valign="top">
189 <td width="50%">
190 <p><i>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</i>/.metadata</p>
191 </td>
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193 <td width="50%">
194 <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p>
195 </td>
196 </tr>
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198 <tr>
199 <td colspan="2" width="100%" valign="top">
200 <p class="gq-management-7">Collections</p>
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206 <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/collections</p>
207 </td>
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209 <td width="50%">
210 <p>Default location for Geeqie collections, collections in this folder will appear in the <a href="sidebars_sort_manager.html">sort manager</a> sidebar.</p>
211 </td>
212 </tr>
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214 <tr>
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216 <p class="gq-management-7">Preferences</p>
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218 </tr>
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220 <tr valign="top">
221 <td width="50%">
222 <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie</p>
223 </td>
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225 <td width="50%">
226 <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
227 </td>
228 </tr>
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230 <tr valign="top">
231 <td width="50%">
232 <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
233 </td>
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235 <td width="50%">
236 <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
237 </td>
238 </tr>
239
240 <tr valign="top">
241 <td width="50%">
242 <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/history</p>
243 </td>
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245 <td width="50%">
246 <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p>
247 </td>
248 </tr>
249
250 <tr valign="top">
251 <td width="50%">
252 <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/accels</p>
253 </td>
254
255 <td width="50%">
256 <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
257 </td>
258 </tr>
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260 <tr valign="top">
261 <td width="50%">
262 <p class="gq-management-7">Safe Delete</p>
263 </td>
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265 <td width="50%">
266 <p><br />
267 </p>
268 </td>
269 </tr>
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272 <td width="50%">
273 <p><span class="gq-management-9"><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i></span>/.geeqie/trash</p>
274 </td>
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276 <td width="50%">
277 <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p>
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311 <p class="gq-management-1"><a href="index.html">Contents</a>
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316 <p class="gq-management-2"><a href="credits.html">Next</a>
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