Is it safe to remove all Thumbs.db?

[orkweh]

Hi.
Before I used an external 2TB HDD as backup and another 2TB internal in an old computer, this was the secondary disk in that computer.
When backing up my files I manually placed everything at the same place on both these drives to keep them identical, if I changed the name of a file I did it on both disks and so on.
But it was always confusing when I right clicked > properties on a folder to check that they were the same size on both disks because on the internal disk there were always a lot more files. At least in folders and it's subfolders with pictures and videos in them.

I've never seen any of these hidden system files created on the external drive.

Today I placed the internal drive in a enclosure so now both are external disks. But it is annoying to me that one of the drives has all of these thumbs.db files everywhere and it makes it hard to be sure that the they are identical.
Like the folder with my photographs, on one of the disks it says:
Contains: 2699 files, 11 folders. 19,3 GB (20 786 953 941)
And on the other:
Contains: 2712 files, 11 folders. 19,3 GB (20 788 629 205)
This can be really confusing when I have to go back all of the time to make sure that both folders have to same amount of files and that I haven't forgotten any, or accidentally removed any.

Is it safe to uncheck the "Hide protected system files" and start deleting these on the previously internal drive?

Thank you.

 

[johnbl]

sure you can delete them, they are little thumbnail versions of your photos, used to show you what a photo a file contains without you having to open the file. They will get regenerated if the system need them.

I think you can turn off the generation of the thumbnail images by selecting "do not cache thumbnails" in the folder options.
I would google for that term to find exactly how to change the setting.

Hi.
Before I used an external 2TB HDD as backup and another 2TB internal in an old computer, this was the secondary disk in that computer.
When backing up my files I manually placed everything at the same place on both these drives to keep them identical, if I changed the name of a file I did it on both disks and so on.
But it was always confusing when I right clicked > properties on a folder to check that they were the same size on both disks because on the internal disk there were always a lot more files. At least in folders and it's subfolders with pictures and videos in them.

I've never seen any of these hidden system files created on the external drive.

Today I placed the internal drive in a enclosure so now both are external disks. But it is annoying to me that one of the drives has all of these thumbs.db files everywhere and it makes it hard to be sure that the they are identical.
Like the folder with my photographs, on one of the disks it says:
Contains: 2699 files, 11 folders. 19,3 GB (20 786 953 941)
And on the other:
Contains: 2712 files, 11 folders. 19,3 GB (20 788 629 205)
This can be really confusing when I have to go back all of the time to make sure that both folders have to same amount of files and that I haven't forgotten any, or accidentally removed any.

Is it safe to uncheck the "Hide protected system files" and start deleting these on the previously internal drive?

Thank you.