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40 <h1>Cache and Data Maintenance</h1>
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>
48 <h2>Geeqie thumbnail cache</h2>
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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54 <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>
57 <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/thumbnails.</p></dd>
64 <h2>Shared thumbnail cache</h2>
66 <p>The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</p>
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70 <dd><p>Removes thumbnails for which the source image is no longer present, or has been modified since the thumbnail was generated.</p></dd>
73 <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</p></dd>
79 <h2>Create thumbnails</h2>
81 <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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86 <dd><p>Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</p></dd>
88 <dt>Include subfolders</dt>
89 <dd><p>Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</p></dd>
91 <dt>Store thumbnails local to source images</dt>
92 <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>
102 <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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106 <dd><p>Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p></dd>
113 <h2>File locations</h2>
115 <p>The various file locations and their use are listed below. <i><HOME></i> refers to your home folder and <i><SOURCE></i> refers to the folder containing the image.</p>
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125 <p>Folder or File name</p>
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143 <p><em><HOME></em>/.thumbnails</p>
147 <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
153 <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p>
157 <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>
163 <p><em><SOURCE>/.</em><span class="gq-management-8">thumbnails</span>
168 <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
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174 <p>Metadata (keywords and comments)</p>
180 <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
184 <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
190 <p><em><SOURCE></em>/.metadata</p>
194 <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p>
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206 <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/collections</p>
210 <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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222 <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie</p>
226 <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
232 <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
236 <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
242 <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/history</p>
246 <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p>
252 <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/accels</p>
256 <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
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268 <p><em><HOME></em>/.geeqie/trash</p>
272 <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p>
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