I have a dual boot system with XP and Ubuntu 10.something. While searching through the hidden directories, I notice a ".thumbnails" directory. It would seem that anytime an image is displayed anywhere in Ubuntu, a thumbnail is made and stored. A couple of hours browsing the web and there are more than 2000 thumbnails.

This is simply unnecessary and a waste of disk space. How do I stop this from happening?

I have a dual boot system with XP and Ubuntu 10.something. While searching through the hidden directories, I notice a ".thumbnails" directory. It would seem that anytime an image is displayed anywhere in Ubuntu, a thumbnail is made and stored. A couple of hours browsing the web and there are more than 2000 thumbnails.

This is simply unnecessary and a waste of disk space. How do I stop this from happening?

Windows do exactly the same thing (thumbs.db files in all folders with images).


A quick google search will show you how to stop thumbnail generation:

http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10414954

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=388168