Document where cache files are generated

Marginal / QLVideo

This package allows macOS Finder to display thumbnails, static QuickLook previews, cover art and metadata for most types of video files.

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Document where cache files are generated #66

Closed lucasff closed 4 years ago

lucasff commented 4 years ago

Hello!

Important to privacy, I'd like to know where the cache/snapshots of videos are being saved. Is this cleared regularly? Can I create then, a scheduled cron job to clean up?

Thanks!

Marginal commented 4 years ago

Previews are generated "live" and aren't stored.

Thumbnails generated by this and by other QuickLook generators are stored in the per-user folder $TMPDIR/../C/com.apple.QuickLook.thumbnailcache . These folders are protected by SIP so you'll have to turn off SIP to see them.

You can clear the thumbnails with qlmanage -r cache.