For anyone struggling with this problem and searching for workarounds, the upstream discussion is a good read. Apparently, it is possible to entirely disable the housekeeping mechanism that is responsible for this problem: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625609#c6
Doing so will (1) disable purging of old thumbnails, so one either has to live with the thumbnail cache growing boundlessly, or implement a different workaround, such as the one suggested by Eric Link https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/505085/comments/13 (2) disable the low disk space check and warning - if your disk is nearly full, you'll have to keep an eye on it yourself (3) possibly disable other housekeeping functionality - when experiencing additional side effects, it might be a good idea to feed them back to the community Of course, this is still a (somewhat unsatisfactory) workaround, and we're eagerly awaiting an actual fix from the upstream gnome-settings- daemon maintenance team. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-settings-daemon in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/505085 Title: gnome-settings-daemon extensive disk usage To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/505085/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
