NautilusThumbnails

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Disable Nautilus Thumbnail Feature (RHEL)

  1. Open a file browser window.
  2. In the top bar click 'File -> Preferences'
    Nautilus-preferences.png
  3. Navigate to the 'Search & Preview' tab.
    Nautilus-preview.png
  4. Under the thumbnails section select 'Never'.
  5. 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/