[Wolves] Konqueror question

[Wayne Morris]

On Tuesday 19 November 2002 8:22 pm, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 5:22 pm, Wayne Morris wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Whilst exploring the kde directory I found
> > /.kde/share/thumbnails/
> >
> > which contains thousands of nested directories which end up with
> > thumbnails of all sorts incl html files, pdf files as well as pictures
> >
> > What is the purpose of this directory structure?
> > Seems like a big waste of space?
>
> It is a cache of  the thumbnail images for Konqueror to display when
> previewing  a file.  If a thumbnail exosts it is displayed, if not one is
> generated and saved in this directory tree for future use.  It falls down
> if you delete files outside of Konquerer as the matching thumbnail will not
> be deleted.


So if I delete the entire directory, will Konqueror build a fresh version of 
the tree?

Wayne