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Nautilus's thumbnail cache in ~/.thumbnails has grown to several hundred megabytes.

Do I need to be concerned about unrestricted growth of this in the long term, or is its size automatically managed somehow?

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answered 1 Year ago emuralm · Accepted Answer

Thumbnail cache is limited to 512MB, so several hundred megabytes sounds logical. It also shouldn't keep files older then 180 days.

If you want to change it, try gconf-editor, /desktop/gnome/thumbnail_cache.

Image showing maximum_size and maximum_age options for thumbnail_cache

Exactly the same solution is aplicable to 12.04. You may need to install gconf-editor, other then that, nothing has changed.

Update

For 14.04 you need to install dconf-tools, and launch dconf-editor.