GNOME generates thumbnails for image, video, PDF, and other documents. Those thumbnails are cached in ~/.thumbnails and never be purged. That could occupy amount of your disk.
orphan-thumbnail is a program to find orphan GNOME thumbnails. It reads thumbnails and find URI to the original file in PNG comments. It is capable to show and/or delete orphan thumbnails.
Download
- Current version:
- Git repository: git://git.kitty.in.th/orphan-thumbnail/
Building orphan-thumbnail
It\’s GNU building system, so just
$ tar xjf orphan-thumbnail-x.y.z.tar.bz2
$ cd orphan-thumbnail-x-y-z
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
The binary orphan-thumbnail should be installed in /usr/local/bin/.
Features
- List thumbnail file and its status
- List only orphan thumbnail file
- Delete orphan thumbnail file
- Quiet mode
Screenshot
$ orphan-thumbnail --help
Usage orphan-thumbnail [OPTION...]
A program to find orphan GNOME thumbnails.
-d, --delete delete orphan thumbnail(s)
-o, --orphan list only orphan thumbnail(s)
-q, --quiet quiet mode, only if -d is specified
-v, --version show version
-h, --help print this help
Report bugs to [email protected]