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Roshambo on 12/20/06

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Find and delete all Thumbs.db files

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Remove all those annoying thumbnail files that Windows users created while browsing your network drive. This command traverses all directories and deletes all "Thumbs.db" files as it finds them.

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find / -name "Thumbs.db" -exec rm '{}' \;

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Posted By: deepan0143 on January 7, 2007

Please How To Delete a Thumbs.db files.

Posted By: sachinbhavsar on April 2, 2008

Command for Windows

C:\del /s /q Thumbs.db

Posted By: deepsoul on November 14, 2009

Easier without -exec:

find / -name "Thumbs.db" -delete

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