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 ...

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.

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.

For starters, the consolidated.db file stored location data for up to a year. Users naturally wondered how old data was useful in Apple’s efforts to determine location today.

9:41 am April 21, 2011 By Julian Horsey If you are a little concerned over the recent discovery of the an iOS file consolidated.db file that records all your movements, you are not alone.

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.

If you use Safari on your Mac for your private browsing needs, you might want to stop. MacIssues points out that all those URLs you visit in private mode are still saved in a database file that ...

Update 2: The forensic community has known about the consolidated.db file for a while now and has been using it. Alex Levinson notes that he's provided data from pre-iOS 4 iPhones to law-enforcement: ...