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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<P><U>File locations</U></P>
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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><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.thumbnails</P>
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				<P>Local thumbnail cache folder.</P>
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				<P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/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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				enabled in advanced preferences.</P>
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				<P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/collections</P>
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				<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>
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				<P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview</P>
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				<P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/gqviewrc</P>
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				<P>GQview preferences rc file.</P>
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				<P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/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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