Re: [evince] cache location

[Jason Crain <jason aquaticape us>]

On Sat, May 21, 2016 at 09:34:33PM -0500, Laverne Schrock wrote:
> I'm wondering where evince stores the data that it maintains about the
> documents that have been viewed. For example, evince remembers which
> page you scrolled to and whether the thumbnail view was closed.
>
> `find $HOME | grep evince` gives no result.
> `dconf dump / | grep evince` reveals that '/org/gnome/evince' holds
> some settings for evince, but not any per-file data. 
>
> Older posts on this list indicate that the data used to be cached under
> '~/.gnome2/', but this is no longer true.
>
> I'm running Evince 3.20.0 in Gnome 3.20.1 in Debian Stretch.

Those things are stored in the gvfs metadata.  You can view it with the
gvfs-show command.  I think the metadata is stored in
~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/*.