Description: This extension remove a Thumbs.db file when you navigate in a folder.
Requires: nautilus
Install from sources: 1. Download the tarball 2. untar it! 3. open terminal inside the untar'ed folder 4. run make && sudo make install or make && su root -c"make install" 5. ???? 6. profitLast changelog:
version 1.2 * Memory leak fix. (Maybe not... Glib scare me!) version 1.1 * I don't remember what I do. version 1.0 * coded in C! oh yeah version 0.1 * Just remove Thumbs.db
I cannot seem to get it to download. It says there is no file to be found.
Any help?
Also, could somebody make a deb version of this? I have a deb version for 1.0 and it works great.
But obviously with one command U only delete all thumbs.db files at a certain point in time, while this application removes the files every time (they get recreated by windows) you browse the folder.
Please do not take this comment offensiva but I just wonder what is the difference between this application's job and " for i in $(find . -name thumbs.db); do rm -fr $i; done" bash command? I' m not a programmer but i can't get the difference. Pls, enlighten me.
I'm not a programmer either, but obviously with one command U only delete all thumbs.db files at a certain point in time, while this application removes the files every time (they get recreated by windows) you browse the folder.
Hi dude, very good idea. Is there any possibility that you make a .deb file? ...It will really simplify the installation of your script in all machines that I know XD
Thanks again, and i hope that you can get this idea in the next update!
See you around!
I have a GPL free implementation of this in c (not as nautilus extension, but is easy to do), if you want, only ask ;)
also, the code is easy to expand to others extensions :D
sorry, that was redundant xD
My version is written in c, not c++, and use only standar and pseudo standar libraries, I offer you if you want to use it, but don't work as nautilus script because I don't know the nautilus libraries... but I think it can be changed very easy..
My program use only the extension, not the name.. so you can add in the code all extensions you want to delete
More accurately, they are files used by Windows to store thumbnails cache, thus speeding thumbnails reloading (it's Windows' equivalent to the ~/.thumbnails folder).
And yeah, those files, along whith Desktop.ini, .directory and .DS_Store are often annoying to appear everywhere.
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I cannot seem to get it to download. It says there is no file to be found. Any help? Also, could somebody make a deb version of this? I have a deb version for 1.0 and it works great.
Link fixed.
Thanks for the update and the deb. Awesome.
Writing such a program in C is a bit of an overkill IMO :))
Wouldn't a simple command "rm ./Thumbs.db" do the same job? Or this script removes them automatically? o.O Poorly explained I must say.
Oh shi.. A /b/tard here?? Making stuff?? :) Nice, useful tool by the way. Gotta go, there is snip ;)
is very useful thank you :D
But obviously with one command U only delete all thumbs.db files at a certain point in time, while this application removes the files every time (they get recreated by windows) you browse the folder.
Please do not take this comment offensiva but I just wonder what is the difference between this application's job and " for i in $(find . -name thumbs.db); do rm -fr $i; done" bash command? I' m not a programmer but i can't get the difference. Pls, enlighten me.
I'm not a programmer either, but obviously with one command U only delete all thumbs.db files at a certain point in time, while this application removes the files every time (they get recreated by windows) you browse the folder.
You are right
Hi dude, very good idea. Is there any possibility that you make a .deb file? ...It will really simplify the installation of your script in all machines that I know XD Thanks again, and i hope that you can get this idea in the next update! See you around!
sure
thanx man! awesome!!!!
I have a GPL free implementation of this in c (not as nautilus extension, but is easy to do), if you want, only ask ;) also, the code is easy to expand to others extensions :D
wait, what? I don't understand the [GPL Free implementation] part. @_@ btw, lets me see what is it :O
sorry, that was redundant xD My version is written in c, not c++, and use only standar and pseudo standar libraries, I offer you if you want to use it, but don't work as nautilus script because I don't know the nautilus libraries... but I think it can be changed very easy.. My program use only the extension, not the name.. so you can add in the code all extensions you want to delete
here the code http://www.box.net/shared/fl6lm6i8ma
Thanks
what are those files anyway?
Sorry, I am messy.
what do you mean? what are thumbs.db files?
Thumbs.db is a parasite file created by windows, and propagated in zipped files. Moar info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_thumbnail_cache
okay, so THAT's what they are. i've always wondered. well, seems like a good idea to remove those pointless files :-)
More accurately, they are files used by Windows to store thumbnails cache, thus speeding thumbnails reloading (it's Windows' equivalent to the ~/.thumbnails folder). And yeah, those files, along whith Desktop.ini, .directory and .DS_Store are often annoying to appear everywhere.