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please see bottom comment and if anyone has any other ways to turn off thumbnails it would be appreciated. i dont like having this folder at all.

Hello Elliott.

Navitgate to Menu > Accessories > Home Folder

At the Home Folder window click

Edit > Preferences > Display Tab > Show Thumbnails

Change Show Thumbnails to "never"

no idea how i missed this i even installed something to replace thunar to try to find something that was right in front of my face, sorry and thanks. i know how to disable swap i think i have it crypted instead but partion manager reads it as unknown so its off maybe, any more tips welcomed.

sorry and thanks again for the quick response.

You're welcome and no worries.

Hi i hope you don't mind me replying to this old thread where you answered my question but, when i turned off thumbnails i noticed it still adds thumbnails into the same .thumbnail folder whenever i view any images on the computer, even when i turn off thumbnails preview in the default image program. is their any way to actually disable the folder so everything i do is not cached into this folder? this seems easy in windows xp by using "disable thumbnails" but maybe linux does not allow you to turn the feature off completely? i would think it would seeing it seems to give so much control compared to xp but i am clueless where and if their is a setting other than in thunar that will really disable .thumbnails?

I may have something for you to try soon but first please reply with your Linux Lite version. Thanks.

hi Scott

2.0, any advice would be appreciated as always. i see your still using 1, any reason you did not switch to 2? just curious. anyways thanks again, you've been a big help to this forum and me personally.

Hi Elliot,

This might be what you're looking for:  http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/tumbler.

Bookmark this search engine:  Linux Beginner Search Engine.  I found the above by just searching for "disable thumbnails in xfce" with that search engine.

this is my first time using linux so something like this might take me awhile to figure out... i will definetly read more on this and am willing to learn. i wonder if Nautilus is superior for changing settings without risk. any idea?

i'm moving the said file into /tumbler/ and hoping that modifying it is not too difficult because its something i've yet have done.. if it is as simple as opening it as txt and changing Disabled=true then i think i will have accomplished it. i will test for results after a reboot. but i understand this might be too much to walk a beginner through but i will do my best to learn and hopefully not damaging my system, again thanks for finding these links they are bookmarked to my toolbar and i have a feeling i will be using *a lot* of the search engine because i love being able to tweek stuff.

i'm hoping # is linux code to ignore that line, because i am unsure if i need to remove the directions in the file in order for it to work. i will try keeping it at first and see what results come from this. you've been super helpful.

elliott

Sorry Elliot,

I didn't have time yesterday to explain that link.

Basically you are going to create your own user config file for the thumbnailer program and set all of the defaults to NOT make thumbnails.  I just tested this out and it will work.

Open up a Terminal and follow directions below.

First make a directory under your home to hold the config file.  (Substitute your username where I have "$USER" below.) (Nevermind about substituting for $USER -- I changed the commands from what I originally wrote, but forgot to take out notice to make substitution.)


Next we'll copy the default system config file for it over to your new directory.


Now we will open the file with your text editor, leafpad


You will see a file that looks like this:




Just go down the file and make sure that each category of thumbnails and change "Disabled = False" on each one to "Disabled = True".  Then just save the file and close out the leafpad text editor.  Close the terminal too.

Done.

No more thumbnails will be generated!