How to get rid from unused entries in ~/.thumbnails

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Wed Oct 28 17:47:06 UTC 2009


On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:39:01 -0400,
  Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> When disk costs fractions of pennies, is that amount of space even a
> concern?  I've had my thumbnails dir grow over several GB before,
> after moving my photos to new locations.  sing the thumbnails are
> stored based on the md5 of the path to the image, I ended up
> duplicating a lot of thumbnails.

Backed up storage isn't nearly as cheap as throw away storage. Disk bandwidth
has not been keeping up with disk size. It isn't getting cheaper to back up
disk space at nearly the rate that plain disk space has.




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