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Fix a segfault occuring when searching for comments in a directory where at least one photo doesn't have a comment. The fix modifies comment_read() function to return FALSE when a comment doesn't exist. Patch by Omari Stephens.
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date Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:26:46 +0000
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  <h1>Cache and Data Maintenance</h1>

  <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>

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  <h2>Geeqie thumbnail cache</h2>

  <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>

  <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>

  <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>

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  <h2>Shared thumbnail cache</h2>

  <p class="gq-management-5">The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</p>

  <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>

  <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Clear cache:</b> Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</p>

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  <h2>Create thumbnails</h2>

  <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>

  <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Render:</b> Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</p>

  <p class="gq-management-6"><b>Include subfolders:</b> Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</p>

  <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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  <h2>Metadata</h2>

  <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>

  <p class="gq-management-5"><b>Clean up:</b> Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p>

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  <h2>File locations</h2>

  <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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          <p>Folder or File name</p>
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          <p>Description</p>
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          <p class="gq-management-7">Thumbnails</p>
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          <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.thumbnails</p>
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          <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
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          <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p>
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          <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>
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          <p><i>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</i><span class="gq-management-8">thumbnails</span>
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          <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
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          <p><b>Metadata</b> <span class="gq-management-9">(keywords and comments)</span></p>
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          <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
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          <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
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          <p><i>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</i>/.metadata</p>
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          <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p>
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          <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/collections</p>
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          <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>
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          <p class="gq-management-7">Preferences</p>
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          <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie</p>
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          <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
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          <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
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          <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
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          <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/history</p>
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          <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p>
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          <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/accels</p>
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          <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
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          <p><span class="gq-management-9"><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i></span>/.geeqie/trash</p>
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