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Update documentation a bit: General, Image, Windows, Filtering, Editors and a part of Advanced (Image Overlay) options.
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| date | Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:05:50 +0000 |
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <title>Cache and Data Management - Geeqie User Manual</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" /> </head> <body lang="en-US" dir="ltr"> <div class="navtop"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <col id="navtop_col1" width="33%"></col> <col id="navtop_col2" width="33%"></col> <col id="navtop_col3" width="33%"></col> <tr> <th> <p class="previous"><a href="reference_thumbnails.html">Previous</a> </p> </th> <th> <p class="navtop_title">Cache and Data Management – Reference</p> </th> <th> <p class="next"><a href="credits.html">Next</a> </p> </th> </tr> </table> </div> <hr /> <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> <dl class="dialog_desc"> <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> </dl> <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> </dl> <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> <dl class="dialog_desc"> <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> </dl> <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> <dl class="dialog_desc"> <dt>Clean up</dt> <dd><p>Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p></dd> </dl> <h2>File locations</h2> <p>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> <div class="file_locations"> <table width="80%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <col id="file_locations_col1" width="50%"></col> <col id="file_locations_col2" width="50%"></col> <thead> <tr> <td> <p>Folder or File name</p> </td> <td> <p>Description</p> </td> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle"> <p>Thumbnails</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.thumbnails</p> </td> <td> <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p> </td> <td> <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> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><SOURCE>/.</em>thumbnails </p> </td> <td> <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle"> <p>Metadata (keywords and comments)</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/metadata</p> </td> <td> <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><SOURCE></em>/.metadata</p> </td> <td> <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle"> <p>Collections</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/collections</p> </td> <td> <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> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle"> <p>Preferences</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie</p> </td> <td> <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p> </td> <td> <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/history</p> </td> <td> <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/accels</p> </td> <td> <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle"> <p>Safe Delete</p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/trash</p> </td> <td> <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div> <hr id="bottomseparator" /> <div class="navbottom"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <col id="navbottom_col1" width="33%"></col> <col id="navbottom_col2" width="33%"></col> <col id="navbottom_col3" width="33%"></col> <tr> <th> <p class="previous"><a href="reference_thumbnails.html">Previous</a> </p> </th> <th> <p class="navbottom_title"><a href="index.html">Contents</a> </p> </th> <th> <p class="next"><a href="credits.html">Next</a> </p> </th> </tr> </table> </div> <div class="footer">Geeqie User Manual</div> <div class="bottomspacer"> </div> </body> </html>