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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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  44   <h2>Geeqie thumbnail cache</h2>
  45
  46   <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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  48   <dl class="dialog_desc">
  49   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  50   <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>
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  52   <dt>Clear cache</dt>
  53   <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/thumbnails.</p></dd>
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  56   <h2>Shared thumbnail cache</h2>
  57
  58   <p>The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</p>
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  61   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  62   <dd><p>Removes thumbnails for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.</p></dd>
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  64   <dt>Clear cache</dt>
  65   <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</p></dd>
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  67   <h2>Create thumbnails</h2>
  68
  69   <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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  73   <dt>Render</dt>
  74   <dd><p>Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</p></dd>
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  76   <dt>Include subfolders</dt>
  77   <dd><p>Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</p></dd>
  78
  79   <dt>Store thumbnails local to source images</dt>
  80   <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>
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  84   <h2>Metadata</h2>
  85
  86   <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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  89   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  90   <dd><p>Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p></dd>
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  92
  93   <h2>File locations</h2>
  94
  95   <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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  99     <col id="file_locations_col1" width="50%"></col>
 100     <col id="file_locations_col2" width="50%"></col>
 101
 102     <thead>
 103       <tr>
 104         <td>
 105           <p>Folder or File name</p>
 106         </td>
 107
 108         <td>
 109           <p>Description</p>
 110         </td>
 111       </tr>
 112     </thead>
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 114     <tbody>
 115       <tr>
 116         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 117           <p>Thumbnails</p>
 118         </td>
 119       </tr>
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 121       <tr>
 122         <td>
 123           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.thumbnails</p>
 124         </td>
 125
 126         <td>
 127           <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
 128         </td>
 129       </tr>
 130
 131       <tr>
 132         <td>
 133           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p>
 134         </td>
 135
 136         <td>
 137           <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>
 138         </td>
 139       </tr>
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 141       <tr>
 142         <td>
 143           <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</em>thumbnails
 144           </p>
 145         </td>
 146
 147         <td>
 148           <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
 149         </td>
 150       </tr>
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 152       <tr>
 153         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 154           <p>Metadata (keywords and comments)</p>
 155         </td>
 156       </tr>
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 159         <td>
 160           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
 161         </td>
 162
 163         <td>
 164           <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
 165         </td>
 166       </tr>
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 168       <tr>
 169         <td>
 170           <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</em>/.metadata</p>
 171         </td>
 172
 173         <td>
 174           <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p>
 175         </td>
 176       </tr>
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 178       <tr>
 179         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 180           <p>Collections</p>
 181         </td>
 182       </tr>
 183
 184       <tr>
 185         <td>
 186           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/collections</p>
 187         </td>
 188
 189         <td>
 190           <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>
 191         </td>
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 195         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 196           <p>Preferences</p>
 197         </td>
 198       </tr>
 199
 200       <tr>
 201         <td>
 202           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie</p>
 203         </td>
 204
 205         <td>
 206           <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
 207         </td>
 208       </tr>
 209
 210       <tr>
 211         <td>
 212           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
 213         </td>
 214
 215         <td>
 216           <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
 217         </td>
 218       </tr>
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 220       <tr>
 221         <td>
 222           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/history</p>
 223         </td>
 224
 225         <td>
 226           <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p>
 227         </td>
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 231         <td>
 232           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/accels</p>
 233         </td>
 234
 235         <td>
 236           <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
 237         </td>
 238       </tr>
 239
 240       <tr>
 241         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 242           <p>Safe Delete</p>
 243         </td>
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 247         <td>
 248           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/trash</p>
 249         </td>
 250
 251         <td>
 252           <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p>
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