Don Freijters Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 Windows XP Makes them hidden and System every time you're viewing with Explorer. There are completely obsolete, and all together a lot of unnecessarely bytes, but most of all it's difficult to move complete directories because of messages concerning these files I don't like te use.For picture viewing and sorting I prefer ACDSee, it doesn't need and extra files ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn Posted September 17, 2006 Share Posted September 17, 2006 You could just disable thumbnail caching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oğuzhan K???K Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 no! i agree with Don Freijters. "disabling the cache" and "cleaning the cache" are different needs. an option providing the deletion of all/some thumbnail.db files would be excellent. regards... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some German Posted January 15, 2008 Share Posted January 15, 2008 Dear folks at Piriform, it would make sense! Really! Sure, you can switch off caching of Thumb files. But only for your local machine. If you have a NAS or if you have a PC within a local network that is used as storage, everyone's machine is storing this fu**ing thumbs.db-files on this machine. Please make it possible, that Thumbs.db-files are automatically erased! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stopmagic Posted January 16, 2008 Share Posted January 16, 2008 a search for Thumbs.db found 60+ MB: it seems the disabling of thumbnail cache is only half the solution, hopefully CCleaner will someday help speed up the process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeBoxx Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 well, more importantly, the difference between disabling and cleaning is that disabling is 'forever' (until switched back on) and not retroactive. Personally, I do *like* having thumbnails for the files in folders I'm working with, and I like that it doesn't have to re-generate those each time I visit the folder. However, once I'm done working with such a folder, that Thumbs.db file serves no further purpose and can be deleted. Basically, it should be perfectly possible, technologically, to find all Thumbs.db files -over- a certain age (i.e. hasn't been modified in N days), and delete only those. It's what I currently do manually with Total Commander, but if this were integrated in an already excellent tool - hey, I'm all for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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