Thumbs.db Removal

[billchase2]

Is there any easy way to delete all the Thumbs.db files on my Mac? I know they came from my PC when I transfered everything... but they're so annoying to delete one by one. Any ideas?

 

[shecky]

do a search for "thumb.db" in the finder, select all, delete

 

[wakerider017]

If you have windows installed make sure you don't accidently delete those thumbs.db files

🙂

 

[Yuvi]

It doesn't matter much if you remove them from a Windows partition, they're just cached thumbnails, and Windows will recreate the file the next time you open the folder. There's an option in Windows to kill the creation of these files, but I don't feel like finding it at the moment.

 

[wookyhoo]

Or make use of the wonderful power of UNIX! 😀

Open a terminal:

# find . -name "Thumbs.db" | xargs ls

That should list ALL of the files called "Thumbs.db" that are below your current directory.

If you actually want to delete all of those then you can do:

# find . -name "Thumbs.db" | xargs rm

😎

 

[auraz]

Thanks wookyhoo!