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  32 <H1>11.4 Cache and Data Maintenance</H1>
  33 <P>Thumbnails and other cached data can be maintained from the dialog
  34 accessible by selecting Thumbnail maintenance from the Edit menu of
  35 the main window.</P>
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  38 <P><U>GQview thumbnail cache</U></P>
  39 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The utilities listed here operate on
  40 the GQview caching mechanism. This also includes the data cached for
  41 the <A HREF="5_1_search.html">search</A> and <A HREF="5_2_finding_duplicates.html">find
  42 duplicates</A> utilities.</P>
  43 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clean up</B>: Removes thumbnails
  44 and data for which the source image is no longer present, or has been
  45 modified since the thumbnail was generated.</P>
  46 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clear cache:</B> Removes all
  47 thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder:
  48 $HOME/.gqview/thumbnails.</P>
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  50 </P>
  51 <P><U>Shared thumbnail cache</U></P>
  52 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The utilities listed here operate on
  53 the shared thumbnail mechanism.</P>
  54 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clean up:</B> Removes thumbnails
  55 for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified
  56 since the thumbnail was generated.</P>
  57 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clear cache:</B> Removes all
  58 thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</P>
  59 <P><BR><BR>
  60 </P>
  61 <P><U>Create thumbnails</U></P>
  62 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">This utility will render thumbnails
  63 using the current thumbnail caching mechanism, as determined in
  64 <A HREF="10_1_general.html">preferences</A>.</P>
  65 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Render:</B> Pre-render thumbnails
  66 for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</P>
  67 <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in"><B>Include subfolders:</B> Enable to
  68 include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</P>
  69 <P STYLE="margin-left: 1.58in"><B>Store thumbnails local to source
  70 images:</B> The generated thumbnails will be stored local to the
  71 source images, if you have the permissions to write to the folder
  72 containing the images.</P>
  73 <P><BR><BR>
  74 </P>
  75 <P><U>Metadata</U></P>
  76 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">This utility operates on the data
  77 store for <A HREF="7_3_keywords.html">keywords and comments</A>
  78 located in the user's home folder: $HOME/.gqview/metadata.</P>
  79 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in"><B>Clean up:</B> Removes keywords and
  80 comments for which the source image is no longer present.</P>
  81 <P><BR><BR>
  82 </P>
  83 <P><U>File locations</U></P>
  84 <P STYLE="margin-left: 0.79in">The various file locations and their
  85 use are listed below. <I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I> refers to your home folder
  86 and <I>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</I> refers to the folder containing the image.</P>
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  93                                 <P>Folder or File name</P>
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  96                                 <P>Description</P>
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 101                                 <P><B>Thumbnails</B></P>
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 106                                 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.thumbnails</P>
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 109                                 <P>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</P>
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 114                                 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/thumbnails</P>
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 117                                 <P>Classic GQview thumbnail cache folder. Also used to cache data
 118                                 used for the search and find duplicates utilities to increase the
 119                                 speed for subsequent searches.</P>
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 124                                 <P><I>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</I><SPAN STYLE="font-style: normal">thumbnails</SPAN></P>
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 127                                 <P>Local thumbnail cache folder.</P>
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 132                                 <P><B>Metadata</B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"> (keywords
 133                                 and comments)</SPAN></P>
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 138                                 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/metadata</P>
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 141                                 <P>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</P>
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 146                                 <P><I>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</I>/.metadata</P>
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 149                                 <P>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be
 150                                 enabled in advanced preferences.</P>
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 155                                 <P><B>Collections</B></P>
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 160                                 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/collections</P>
 161                         </TD>
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 163                                 <P>Default location for GQview collections, collections in this
 164                                 folder will appear in the <A HREF="7_2_sort_manager.html">sort
 165                                 manager</A> sidebar.</P>
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 170                                 <P><B>Preferences</B></P>
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 175                                 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview</P>
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 178                                 <P>GQview preferences folder.</P>
 179                         </TD>
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 183                                 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/gqviewrc</P>
 184                         </TD>
 185                         <TD WIDTH=50%>
 186                                 <P>GQview preferences rc file.</P>
 187                         </TD>
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 189                 <TR VALIGN=TOP>
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 191                                 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/history</P>
 192                         </TD>
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 194                                 <P>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks,
 195                                 and recently used collections. Also contains default print
 196                                 settings.</P>
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 198                 </TR>
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 201                                 <P><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I>/.gqview/accels</P>
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 204                                 <P>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</P>
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 209                                 <P><B>Safe Delete</B></P>
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 218                                 <P><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: medium"><I>&lt;HOME&gt;</I></SPAN>/.gqview/trash</P>
 219                         </TD>
 220                         <TD WIDTH=50%>
 221                                 <P>Default location of the safe delete folder.</P>
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