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# 4. Thumbnail Directory

There exists exactly one place where all generated thumbnails will be stored. This is the .thumbnails directory located in the users home.

## 4.1. Directory Structure

Within this dir there are living some other subdirectories showing in the following listing:

    ~/.thumbnails/
    ~/.thumbnails/normal
    ~/.thumbnails/large/
    ~/.thumbnails/fail/

The meaning of the directories are as follows:

- Normal: The default place for storing thumbnails. The image size must not exceed 128x128 pixel. Programs which need smaller resolutions should read and write the 128x128 thumbnails and downscale them afterwards to the desired dimension. See Thumbnail Creation for more details.

- Large: The previous notes apply to this directory too, except that the thumbnail size must be 256x256 pixel.

- Fail: This directory is used to store information about files where a thumbnail couldn't be generated. See Thumbnail Generation Failure for more details.

| You must not create/save thumbnails for any files you will find in these directories. Instead load and use these files directly.

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