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  38   <h1>Cache and Data Maintenance</h1>
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  40   <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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  42   <h2>Geeqie thumbnail cache</h2>
  43
  44   <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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  46   <dl class="dialog_desc">
  47   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  48   <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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  50   <dt>Clear cache</dt>
  51   <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/thumbnails.</p></dd>
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  54   <h2>Shared thumbnail cache</h2>
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  56   <p>The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</p>
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  58   <dl class="dialog_desc">
  59   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  60   <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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  62   <dt>Clear cache</dt>
  63   <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</p></dd>
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  65   <h2>Create thumbnails</h2>
  66
  67   <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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  71   <dt>Render</dt>
  72   <dd><p>Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</p></dd>
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  74   <dt>Include subfolders</dt>
  75   <dd><p>Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</p></dd>
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  77   <dt>Store thumbnails local to source images</dt>
  78   <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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  82   <h2>Metadata</h2>
  83
  84   <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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  87   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  88   <dd><p>Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p></dd>
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  91   <h2>File locations</h2>
  92
  93   <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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 100     <thead>
 101       <tr>
 102         <td>
 103           <p>Folder or File name</p>
 104         </td>
 105
 106         <td>
 107           <p>Description</p>
 108         </td>
 109       </tr>
 110     </thead>
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 112     <tbody>
 113       <tr>
 114         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 115           <p>Thumbnails</p>
 116         </td>
 117       </tr>
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 119       <tr>
 120         <td>
 121           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.thumbnails</p>
 122         </td>
 123
 124         <td>
 125           <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
 126         </td>
 127       </tr>
 128
 129       <tr>
 130         <td>
 131           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p>
 132         </td>
 133
 134         <td>
 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>
 136         </td>
 137       </tr>
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 140         <td>
 141           <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</em>thumbnails
 142           </p>
 143         </td>
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 145         <td>
 146           <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
 147         </td>
 148       </tr>
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 151         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 152           <p>Metadata (keywords and comments)</p>
 153         </td>
 154       </tr>
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 157         <td>
 158           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
 159         </td>
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 161         <td>
 162           <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
 163         </td>
 164       </tr>
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 167         <td>
 168           <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</em>/.metadata</p>
 169         </td>
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 171         <td>
 172           <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p>
 173         </td>
 174       </tr>
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 177         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 178           <p>Collections</p>
 179         </td>
 180       </tr>
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 182       <tr>
 183         <td>
 184           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/collections</p>
 185         </td>
 186
 187         <td>
 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>
 189         </td>
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 193         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 194           <p>Preferences</p>
 195         </td>
 196       </tr>
 197
 198       <tr>
 199         <td>
 200           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie</p>
 201         </td>
 202
 203         <td>
 204           <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
 205         </td>
 206       </tr>
 207
 208       <tr>
 209         <td>
 210           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
 211         </td>
 212
 213         <td>
 214           <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
 215         </td>
 216       </tr>
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 218       <tr>
 219         <td>
 220           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/history</p>
 221         </td>
 222
 223         <td>
 224           <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p>
 225         </td>
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 229         <td>
 230           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/accels</p>
 231         </td>
 232
 233         <td>
 234           <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
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 239         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 240           <p>Safe Delete</p>
 241         </td>
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 245         <td>
 246           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/trash</p>
 247         </td>
 248
 249         <td>
 250           <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p>
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