How do I prevent my Ubuntu 14.10 (now 15.04) from creating and saving thumbnails for a specific folder only?
I want to tell the thumbnailer to skip over that single folder (and subfolders), but for all existing and future user accounts.
I read some answered questions about excluding a specific file type, but I need to exclude files by their location!
What I already tried is to hide the folder (renamed to .foldername
), but with no luck. The folder is owned by root, by the way.
.thumbnails/normal/
and/or.thumbnails/large/
in the user's home directory. Your program could perform the same hash and write a zero-byte thumbnail file instead. By any luck, the thumbnailer routine will notice that a thumbnail file already exists and skip thumbnailing your image.