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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>

  <h2>Geeqie thumbnail cache</h2>

  <p>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>

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  <dt>Clean up</dt>
  <dd><p>Removes thumbnails and data for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.</p></dd>

  <dt>Clear cache</dt>
  <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/thumbnails.</p></dd>
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  <h2>Shared thumbnail cache</h2>

  <p>The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</p>

  <dl class="dialog_desc">
  <dt>Clean up</dt>
  <dd><p>Removes thumbnails for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.</p></dd>

  <dt>Clear cache</dt>
  <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</p></dd>
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  <h2>Create thumbnails</h2>

  <p>This utility will render thumbnails using the current thumbnail caching mechanism, as determined in <a href="options_general.html">preferences</a>.</p>

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  <dt>Render</dt>
  <dd><p>Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</p></dd>

  <dt>Include subfolders</dt>
  <dd><p>Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</p></dd>

  <dt>Store thumbnails local to source images</dt>
  <dd><p>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></dd>

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  <h2>Metadata</h2>

  <p>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>

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  <dt>Clean up</dt>
  <dd><p>Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p></dd>
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  <h2>File locations</h2>

  <p>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>Thumbnails</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.thumbnails</p>
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          <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.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><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</em>thumbnails
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          <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
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          <p>Metadata (keywords and comments)</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
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          <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</em>/.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>Collections</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.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>Preferences</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie</p>
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          <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
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          <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.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><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/accels</p>
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          <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
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          <p>Safe Delete</p>
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          <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/trash</p>
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          <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p>
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author	nadvornik
date	Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:36:58 +0000
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