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  40   <h1>Cache and Data Maintenance</h1>
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  42   <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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  48   <h2>Geeqie thumbnail cache</h2>
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  50   <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>
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  52   <p><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>
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  54   <p><b>Clear cache:</b> Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/thumbnails.</p>
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  60   <h2>Shared thumbnail cache</h2>
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  62   <p>The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</p>
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  64   <p><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>
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  66   <p><b>Clear cache:</b> Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</p>
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  72   <h2>Create thumbnails</h2>
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  74   <p>This utility will render thumbnails using the current thumbnail caching mechanism, as determined in <a href="options_general.html">preferences</a>.</p>
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  76   <p><b>Render:</b> Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</p>
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  78   <p><b>Include subfolders:</b> Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</p>
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  80   <p><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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  86   <h2>Metadata</h2>
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  88   <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>
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  90   <p><b>Clean up:</b> Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p>
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  96   <h2>File locations</h2>
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  98   <p>The various file locations and their 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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 104         <th width="50%">
 105           <p>Folder or File name</p>
 106         </th>
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 109           <p>Description</p>
 110         </th>
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 115           <p>Thumbnails</p>
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 121           <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.thumbnails</p>
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 125           <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
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 131           <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p>
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 135           <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>
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 141           <p><i>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</i><span class="gq-management-8">thumbnails</span>
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 146           <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
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 152           <p><b>Metadata</b> <span class="gq-management-9">(keywords and comments)</span></p>
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 158           <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
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 162           <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
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 168           <p><i>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</i>/.metadata</p>
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 172           <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p>
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 178           <p>Collections</p>
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 184           <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/collections</p>
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 188           <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>
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 194           <p>Preferences</p>
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 200           <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie</p>
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 204           <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
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 210           <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
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 214           <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
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 220           <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/history</p>
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 224           <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p>
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 230           <p><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i>/.geeqie/accels</p>
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 234           <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
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 240           <p>Safe Delete</p>
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 251           <p><span class="gq-management-9"><i>&lt;HOME&gt;</i></span>/.geeqie/trash</p>
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 255           <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p>
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