This article is incomplete and was first written in June 2006
for the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/338).
To automatically clean the thumbnails generated by Nautilus, and who never get cleaned by GNOME itself and can really fast occupy a large part of your disk space, I setup a cronjob like this in /etc/cron.d/clean-gnome-thumbnails on my Debian:
#
# Clean GNOME thumbnails files
#
# Every day, at 22h.
0 22 * * * root find /home/*/.thumbnails/ -type f -atime +90 -exec rm {} \;
This cronjob would remove thumbnails older than 90 days from homes of all users on my machine every day at 10PM.
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