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SafariStand & History Flow

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So I've got the SafariStand plugin installed, and I love it. It especially works great with the History Flow feature, which I use all the time to browse my history.

Problem here is that I started looking through my hard drive for some old files to delete, when I found the folder that stores the thumbnails for History Flow (~/Library/Caches/SafariStand/thumbnail.noindex/). It had kept the thumbnails in there since the day I installed the plugin! A few gigs of data were being used up by these really outdated items of history. So my question is, does anyone know of a way to have these items be deleted after a certain period of time?

It seems that Safari's option to erase your history over a set amount of time has no effect on the files stored within this folder. Any ideas? Thanks.
 
Okay, I'm not good enough in UNIX to know how to delete files older than a certain age, but I can tell you how to empty the directory whenever you start the computer, anyway. That's probably the best way to go since it doesn't risk deleting a thumbnail that's in use. The process is a little involved, but straightforward. Don't let it intimidate you.

Open a Terminal window, and run

crontab -e

Press a, then add a new line at the end if there's already anything in there. (There probably won't be, just a bunch of empty lines denoted with ~.) Type:

@reboot rm ~/Library/Caches/SafariStand/thumbnail.noindex/*

Then hit escape. Now type :wq and hit return.

That's all it should take. Try rebooting the computer and see if it works as advertised. Hey, it's not my fault that vim is so counterintuitive... 😛
 
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