Some files such as the Thumbs.db file can be disabled in Windows, so if you have a personal PC with Windows on it (ie, VMWare or Parallels), you can set it to prevent caching of thumbnail previews; ...

Folders with pictures & movies will have a thumbs.db file after you view them in "Thumbnails" mode. It's to speed it up the next time (as the OS won't have to regenerate all those thumbnails).<BR>Also ...

OK, so I moved a couple of windows drives to my linux box. I just got done shuffling stuff around to redo them all as xt3 but now I've got thumbs.db files in each folder. I did a find files in gnome ...