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layout	status	published	title	author	author_login	author_email	author_url	wordpress_id	wordpress_url	date	categories	tags	comments
post	publish	true	Remove all your Thumbs files	Julien Lengrand-Lambert	jlengrand	julien@lengrand.fr	http://www.lengrand.fr	646	http://www.lengrand.fr/?p=646	2012-06-11 11:27:30.000000000 +02:00	tips	windows ubuntu thmbs thumbmails unix linux remove clean

You too may have enjoyed Windows and its tendency to hide Thumbs files in any folder containing media files.

Basically, Windows creates those files to let you see thumbnails when you browse from file to file (or folder to folder . . . ).

And as you now run Linux, those files are completely useless for you !

So here is the magic solution to get rid of those parasites :

[bash]

$ sudo find any_folder -name "Thumbs.db" -exec rm {} ;

[/bash]

any_folder being of course the location you want to sanitize.

 

You can now enjoy a world (slighlty) cleaner :).