Thumbs.db is a system file that contains the thumbnail cache–a collection of thumbnail images for photos, documents, Web pages, and so on–for a particular folder.

This thumbnail cache – thumbs.db, ehthumbs.db, thumbcache_*.db – is used by Windows to speed up the display of thumbnail files in folders. Thumbs.db file in Windows OS ...

I am trying to build DB_File perl module on a AIX box. I have built and install BerkeleyDB 4.8, it is installed at /usr/local/BerkeleyDB. When I attempt to build the module, this is what I receive.

Windows 11/10 creates thumbs.db files within folders on Network drives & centralized thumbnail cache. Learn how to disable and remove them.

And, due to stupidity, I deleted the DB file(s) hoping that you could force File History to "reattach" to that store, scan it, rebuild the DB and we could get on with life.

Those commands will be issues and the file sizes will be modified in the catalog in the master database. The next time the service restarts, TempDB will be the size specified in the resize statements.

In conclusion, while the discovery of the consolidated.db file’s behavior is concerning, it is reassuring to know that it is likely a bug rather than a deliberate design choice.

The consolidated.db file essentially logs the location data of your iOS device. This data is collected through various means such as GPS, Wi-Fi networks, and cell towers.