[Bug 79943] it should be possible to limit the amount of disk space used by thumbnails (.thumbnails directory)

[Eloi]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79943





--- Comment #88 from Eloi <entfe001 gmail com>  2011-11-14 18:11:59 ---
I, for instance, use find ~/.thumbnails -atime +9 -delete

This does not set an upper limit, but aviods recreation of the same thumbnails
again and again while purging the ones less used, either due to deleted files,
less visited folders or external drives no longer available.

Of course, the date range may vary to suit any need. A little more than a week
is useful to keep both the workday and weekend use, but will purge everything
after a long holiday away from computer. Also, more days does not always mean
more disk used but more delay on one-time thumbnails purge and also less
recreation of same thumbnails seen less frequently. For users with a lot of
different once-seen-and-forgotten folders, a short period is more desirable as
the cache can grow quite fast; however for those who use a large image
collection once in a while, every recreation can be a loss of time to compute
and will reclaim the saved disk space.

The size limit may be more sensible, but meanwhile I'm using this approach.

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