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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>Cache and Data Management - GQview User Manual</TITLE> <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20040805;23590500"> <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20050208;15085100"> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR"> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0 STYLE="page-break-before: always"> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <THEAD> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><A HREF="11_3_thumbnails.html">Previous</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER>Cache and Data Management - Reference</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="12_credits.html">Next</A></P> </TD> </TR> </THEAD> </TABLE> </CENTER> <HR> <H1>11.4 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> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>GQview thumbnail cache</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The utilities listed here operate on the GQview caching mechanism. This also includes the data cached for the <A HREF="5_1_search.html">search</A> and <A HREF="5_2_finding_duplicates.html">find duplicates</A> utilities.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><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 STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clear cache:</B> Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.gqview/thumbnails.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Shared thumbnail cache</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><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 STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clear cache:</B> Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Create thumbnails</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">This utility will render thumbnails using the current thumbnail caching mechanism, as determined in <A HREF="10_1_general.html">preferences</A>.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Render:</B> Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in"><B>Include subfolders:</B> Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in"><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> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>Metadata</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">This utility operates on the data store for <A HREF="7_3_keywords.html">keywords and comments</A> located in the user's home folder: $HOME/.gqview/metadata.</P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clean up:</B> Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><U>File locations</U></P> <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The various file locations and their use are listed below. <I><HOME></I> refers to your home folder and <I><SOURCE></I> refers to the folder containing the image.</P> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=80% BORDER=1 BORDERCOLOR="#cccccc" CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0> <COL WIDTH=128*> <COL WIDTH=128*> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TH WIDTH=50%> <P>Folder or File name</P> </TH> <TH WIDTH=50%> <P>Description</P> </TH> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2 WIDTH=100% VALIGN=TOP> <P><B>Thumbnails</B></P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><HOME></I>/.thumbnails</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><HOME></I>/.gqview/thumbnails</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Classic GQview thumbnail cache folder. Also used to cache data used for the search and find duplicates utilities to increase the speed for subsequent searches.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><SOURCE>/.</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">thumbnails</SPAN></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Local thumbnail cache folder.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2 WIDTH=100% VALIGN=TOP> <P><B>Metadata</B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"> (keywords and comments)</SPAN></P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><HOME></I>/.gqview/metadata</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><SOURCE></I>/.metadata</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2 WIDTH=100% VALIGN=TOP> <P><B>Collections</B></P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><HOME></I>/.gqview/collections</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Default location for GQview collections, collections in this folder will appear in the <A HREF="7_2_sort_manager.html">sort manager</A> sidebar.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR> <TD COLSPAN=2 WIDTH=100% VALIGN=TOP> <P><B>Preferences</B></P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><HOME></I>/.gqview</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>GQview preferences folder.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><HOME></I>/.gqview/gqviewrc</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>GQview preferences rc file.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><HOME></I>/.gqview/history</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><I><HOME></I>/.gqview/accels</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><B>Safe Delete</B></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><BR> </P> </TD> </TR> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"><I><HOME></I></SPAN>/.gqview/trash</P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=50%> <P>Default location of the safe delete folder.</P> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </CENTER> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <P><BR><BR> </P> <HR> <CENTER> <TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=4 CELLSPACING=0> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <COL WIDTH=85*> <THEAD> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><A HREF="11_3_thumbnails.html">Previous</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER><A HREF="index.html">Contents</A></P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT><A HREF="12_credits.html">Next</A></P> </TD> </TR> </THEAD> <TBODY> <TR VALIGN=TOP> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P><BR> </P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=CENTER><BR> </P> </TD> <TD WIDTH=33%> <P ALIGN=RIGHT>GQview User Manual</P> </TD> </TR> </TBODY> </TABLE> </CENTER> <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><BR> </P> </BODY> </HTML>