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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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 105     <thead>
 106       <tr>
 107         <td>
 108           <p>Folder or File name</p>
 109         </td>
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 111         <td>
 112           <p>Description</p>
 113         </td>
 114       </tr>
 115     </thead>
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 117     <tbody>
 118       <tr>
 119         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 120           <p>Thumbnails</p>
 121         </td>
 122       </tr>
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 124       <tr>
 125         <td>
 126           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.thumbnails</p>
 127         </td>
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 129         <td>
 130           <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
 131         </td>
 132       </tr>
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 135         <td>
 136           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p>
 137         </td>
 138
 139         <td>
 140           <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>
 141         </td>
 142       </tr>
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 145         <td>
 146           <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</em><span class="gq-management-8">thumbnails</span>
 147           </p>
 148         </td>
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 150         <td>
 151           <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
 152         </td>
 153       </tr>
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 156         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 157           <p>Metadata (keywords and comments)</p>
 158         </td>
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 162         <td>
 163           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
 164         </td>
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 166         <td>
 167           <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
 168         </td>
 169       </tr>
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 172         <td>
 173           <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</em>/.metadata</p>
 174         </td>
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 176         <td>
 177           <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p>
 178         </td>
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 182         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 183           <p>Collections</p>
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 188         <td>
 189           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/collections</p>
 190         </td>
 191
 192         <td>
 193           <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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 198         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 199           <p>Preferences</p>
 200         </td>
 201       </tr>
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 204         <td>
 205           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie</p>
 206         </td>
 207
 208         <td>
 209           <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
 210         </td>
 211       </tr>
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 213       <tr>
 214         <td>
 215           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
 216         </td>
 217
 218         <td>
 219           <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
 220         </td>
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 224         <td>
 225           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/history</p>
 226         </td>
 227
 228         <td>
 229           <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p>
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 235           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/accels</p>
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 237
 238         <td>
 239           <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
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 245           <p>Safe Delete</p>
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 250         <td>
 251           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/trash</p>
 252         </td>
 253
 254         <td>
 255           <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p>
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