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2 <section id="GuideReferenceManagement">
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3 <title id="titleGuideReferenceManagement">Cache and Data Maintenance</title>
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5 Thumbnails and other cached data can be maintained from the dialog accessible by selecting
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7 <guimenu>Edit</guimenu>
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8 <guimenuitem>Cache maintenance</guimenuitem>
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13 <section id="Geeqiethumbnailcache">
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14 <title>Geeqie thumbnail and sim. cache</title>
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16 The utilities listed here operate on the Geeqie caching mechanism. This also includes the data cached for the
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17 <link linkend="GuideImageSearchSearch">search</link>
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19 <link linkend="GuideImageSearchFindingDuplicates">find duplicates</link>
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25 <guilabel>Clean up</guilabel>
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28 <para>Removes thumbnails, sim. files, and data for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.</para>
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33 <guilabel>Clear cache</guilabel>
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36 <para>Removes all thumbnails, sim. files, and data stored in the designated folder.</para>
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41 <section id="Sharedthumbnailcache">
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42 <title>Shared thumbnail cache</title>
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43 <para>The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</para>
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47 <guilabel>Clean up</guilabel>
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50 <para>Removes thumbnails for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.</para>
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55 <guilabel>Clear cache</guilabel>
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58 <para>Removes all thumbnails stored in the designated folder.</para>
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63 <section id="Createthumbnails">
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64 <title>Create thumbnails</title>
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66 This utility will render thumbnails using the current thumbnail caching mechanism, as determined in
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67 <link linkend="GuideOptionsGeneral">Preferences</link>
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73 <guilabel>Render</guilabel>
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76 <para>Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</para>
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81 <guilabel>Include subfolders</guilabel>
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84 <para>Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</para>
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89 <guilabel>Store thumbnails local to source images</guilabel>
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92 <para>The generated thumbnails will be stored local to the source images, if you have the permissions to write to the folder containing the images.</para>
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97 <section id="CreateSimFiles">
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98 <title>Create file similarity cache</title>
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100 Some file operations, such as
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101 <link linkend="GuideImageSearchSearch">search</link>
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103 <link linkend="GuideImageSearchFindingDuplicates">find duplicates</link>
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104 , are speeded up if similarity data files for the images have been created. This utility will create sim. files recursively under the specified folder.
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106 The sim. files contain some or all of the following fields:
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110 <guilabel>Dimensions</guilabel>
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113 <para>width x height</para>
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118 <guilabel>Date</guilabel>
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121 <para>Exif date in time_t format</para>
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126 <guilabel>checksum</guilabel>
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129 <para>MD5sum 32 character ascii text digest</para>
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134 <guilabel>SimilarityGrid</guilabel>
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137 <para>[32 x 32] = 3072 bytes of data (1024 pixels in RGB format, 1 pixel is 24bits)</para>
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143 <section id="Metadata">
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144 <title>Metadata</title>
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146 This utility operates on the data store for
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147 <link linkend="MetadataWritingProcess">Metadata</link>
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148 located in the folder:
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149 <programlisting>$HOME/.local/share/Geeqie/metadata</programlisting>
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155 <guilabel>Clean up</guilabel>
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158 <para>Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</para>
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