How to Clean the directory. Thumbnails on Linux

Most Linux desktops are capable of displaying thumbnails of images. They retain these thumbnails to allow a faster displays.

The problem is that these miniatures tend to accumulate, taking more and more space. Here's how to automatically clean up the thumbnails.

• Create the file / etc / crond.daily / clean_thumbnails: sudo gedit / etc / cron.daily / clean_thumbnails
• Paste in:
  
  Code:

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  #! / bin / sh
  nice find / home / yourlogin. thumbnails-name "*. png"-mtime 15 | xargs rm-f

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• Make this file executable: chmod + x / etc / cron.daily / clean_thumbnails

This cleaning is no longer necessary with Ubuntu 8.10: The system will purge itself thumbnails.
The cache is cleared if there is an excess of the maximum age and miniatures or the maximum cache size; This configuration with gconf-editor in:
/ desktop / gnome / thumbnail_cache / max_size (maximum cache size)
/ desktop / gnome / thumbnail_cache / max_age (maximum age of a miniature)