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Will Deleting Thumbnails Also Delete My Pics?

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theres a folder named 'thumbnails' that contains thumbnails of my pics. i downloaded an app that cleans up the android o/s. it asks me if its ok to delete the contents of this folder. if i delete the thumbnails of this folder, will that also delete my pics?
 
Not if it's only deleting the thumbnails folder, but it's pointless as they will just be created next time you load your gallery or contacts app, or any other app that uses thumbs
 
XplosiV said:
Not if it's only deleting the thumbnails folder, but it's pointless as they will just be created next time you load your gallery or contacts app, or any other app that uses thumbs
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i understand. but i dont want to delete the thumbnails folder. i just want to delete its contents which are thumbnails. so i hope in doing so that i dont delete any of my pics. so according to u i should have no problem and my pics wont be deleted in the process.

funkylogik said:
Whats the app btw?
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its called clean master.
 
koolx said:
i understand. but i dont want to delete the thumbnails folder. i just want to delete its contents which are thumbnails. so i hope in doing so that i dont delete any of my pics. so according to u i should have no problem and my pics wont be deleted in the process.



its called clean master.
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Backup your pictures and try it.
 
koolx said:
theres a folder named 'thumbnails' that contains thumbnails of my pics. i downloaded an app that cleans up the android o/s. it asks me if its ok to delete the contents of this folder. if i delete the thumbnails of this folder, will that also delete my pics?
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No, it won't. However, xplosiv is correct - they'll be back.
 
guys clean master doesn't clean the .thumbnail files it just cleans the junk files, residual files and obsolete apks.

For deleting the thumbnails you need to follow the following steps no need to download any app for it.

1) create a new folder on your desktop, inside that folder create a text document and rename it as .file

2) make as many text document files with extension as .file as there are .thumbnail files under your DCIM folder => .thumbnail files and rename the text document files with exactly the same name as .thumbnail files (or you can make some text document files and rename them again and again with the new .thumbnail files).

3) delete all the original .thumbnail files and replace it with the new text document files that you made with the extension .file

4) reboot your phone and you are done.
 
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piyush09 said:
guys clean master doesn't clean the .thumbnail files it just cleans the junk files, residual files and obsolete apks.

For deleting the thumbnails you need to follow the following steps no need to download any app for it.

1) create a new folder on your desktop, inside that folder create a text document and rename it as .file

2) make as many text document files with extension as .file as there are .thumbnail files under your DCIM folder => .thumbnail files and rename the text document files with exactly the same name as .thumbnail files (or you can make some text document files and rename them again and again with the new .thumbnail files).

3) delete all the original .thumbnail files and replace it with the new text document files that you made with the extension .file

4) reboot your phone and you are done.
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This is bizarre. When you have 3000 thumbnail files. Such a stupid feature of android
 
hi
may i ask a question ?
i have removed several photos assigned to my contacts (saved to my device )
is there a way to clean up them ?
a friend of mine own a rooted photos and browsing the device folders i found several thumbs assigned to contacts
thanks
 
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