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Revision as of 19:06, 2 October 2018


Disable Nautilus Thumbnail Feature (RHEL)

  • Open a file browser window
  • In the top bar click 'File -> Preferences'
    • Nautilus-preferences.png
  • Navigate to the 'Search & Preview' tab.
    • Nautilus-preview.png
  • Under the thumbnails section select 'Never'
  • Exit the window.

Clean up existing thumbnail files

Thumbnails are stored in the following directory:

~/.cache/thumbnails/

Removing that directory will clean up the thumbnails.

Checking Thumbnail space usage

The following command shows the current disk space utilization of the thumbnails:

du -sh ~/.cache/thumbnails/