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  42   <h1>Cache and Data Maintenance</h1>
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  44   <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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  46   <h2>Geeqie thumbnail cache</h2>
  47
  48   <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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  50   <dl class="dialog_desc">
  51   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  52   <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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  54   <dt>Clear cache</dt>
  55   <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails and data stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.geeqie/thumbnails.</p></dd>
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  58   <h2>Shared thumbnail cache</h2>
  59
  60   <p>The utilities listed here operate on the shared thumbnail mechanism.</p>
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  63   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  64   <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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  66   <dt>Clear cache</dt>
  67   <dd><p>Removes all thumbnails stored in the user's home folder: $HOME/.thumbnails.</p></dd>
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  69   <h2>Create thumbnails</h2>
  70
  71   <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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  75   <dt>Render</dt>
  76   <dd><p>Pre-render thumbnails for a specific folder, the utility has the following options:</p></dd>
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  78   <dt>Include subfolders</dt>
  79   <dd><p>Enable to include all images contained in the subfolders of folder.</p></dd>
  80
  81   <dt>Store thumbnails local to source images</dt>
  82   <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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  86   <h2>Metadata</h2>
  87
  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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  91   <dt>Clean up</dt>
  92   <dd><p>Removes keywords and comments for which the source image is no longer present.</p></dd>
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  95   <h2>File locations</h2>
  96
  97   <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     <table width="80%" border="1" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0">
 101     <col id="file_locations_col1" width="50%"></col>
 102     <col id="file_locations_col2" width="50%"></col>
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 104     <thead>
 105       <tr>
 106         <td>
 107           <p>Folder or File name</p>
 108         </td>
 109
 110         <td>
 111           <p>Description</p>
 112         </td>
 113       </tr>
 114     </thead>
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 116     <tbody>
 117       <tr>
 118         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 119           <p>Thumbnails</p>
 120         </td>
 121       </tr>
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 123       <tr>
 124         <td>
 125           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.thumbnails</p>
 126         </td>
 127
 128         <td>
 129           <p>Shared thumbnail cache folder.</p>
 130         </td>
 131       </tr>
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 133       <tr>
 134         <td>
 135           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/thumbnails</p>
 136         </td>
 137
 138         <td>
 139           <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>
 140         </td>
 141       </tr>
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 144         <td>
 145           <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;/.</em>thumbnails
 146           </p>
 147         </td>
 148
 149         <td>
 150           <p>Local thumbnail cache folder.</p>
 151         </td>
 152       </tr>
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 154       <tr>
 155         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 156           <p>Metadata (keywords and comments)</p>
 157         </td>
 158       </tr>
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 161         <td>
 162           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/metadata</p>
 163         </td>
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 165         <td>
 166           <p>Metadata stored in user's home folder.</p>
 167         </td>
 168       </tr>
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 170       <tr>
 171         <td>
 172           <p><em>&lt;SOURCE&gt;</em>/.metadata</p>
 173         </td>
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 175         <td>
 176           <p>Metadata stored local to source image. Requires option to be enabled in advanced preferences.</p>
 177         </td>
 178       </tr>
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 181         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 182           <p>Collections</p>
 183         </td>
 184       </tr>
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 186       <tr>
 187         <td>
 188           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/collections</p>
 189         </td>
 190
 191         <td>
 192           <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>
 193         </td>
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 197         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 198           <p>Preferences</p>
 199         </td>
 200       </tr>
 201
 202       <tr>
 203         <td>
 204           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie</p>
 205         </td>
 206
 207         <td>
 208           <p>Geeqie preferences folder.</p>
 209         </td>
 210       </tr>
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 212       <tr>
 213         <td>
 214           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/geeqierc</p>
 215         </td>
 216
 217         <td>
 218           <p>Geeqie preferences rc file.</p>
 219         </td>
 220       </tr>
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 223         <td>
 224           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/history</p>
 225         </td>
 226
 227         <td>
 228           <p>Historic data such as last several folders visited, bookmarks, and recently used collections. Also contains default print settings.</p>
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 233         <td>
 234           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/accels</p>
 235         </td>
 236
 237         <td>
 238           <p>Keyboard shortcut mapping.</p>
 239         </td>
 240       </tr>
 241
 242       <tr>
 243         <td colspan="2" class="file_locations_subtitle">
 244           <p>Safe Delete</p>
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 249         <td>
 250           <p><em>&lt;HOME&gt;</em>/.geeqie/trash</p>
 251         </td>
 252
 253         <td>
 254           <p>Default location of the safe delete folder.</p>
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