Re: [evince] cache location

[Laverne Schrock <lists-laverne schrock email>]

On Sat, 2016-05-21 at 23:36 -0500, Jason Crain wrote:
> 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/*.
Thanks!
You are correct that metadata is being stored with gvfs. Running `gvfs-
info myfile.pdf | grep meta` shows all the evince data that I was
curious about. 

However, I don't have a `gvfs-show` command on my machine and I
couldn't find any mention of one on the web. (I did find many
references to the x-gvfs-show option in '/etc/fstab'). Now I'm
wondering if there is way to get a nice listing of that metadata for
all my PDFs (including ones that have now been deleted with `rm`), but
that is a question for the GVFS folks.

Cheers!
Laverne