What can I delete?

My hard disk needs serious cleanup so I ran a duplicate finder. I have many, many duplicate files that is an image file name but ends in the suffix .cot (like DSCF3456.jpg.cot). What are these? Can these be deleted?

But the most space is used by catalogs that ends in .cocatalog (like FY2014_Summer.cocatalog). These take a bunch of room! Can these be deleted?

Thanks

PS: I have been moving some files around trying to optimize my disk storage, so it is conceivable I created these myself somehow...

Thanks, John

Paul Steunebrink

29. Juni 2015 13:36

I strongly recommend against cleanup inside a catalog folder (*.cocatalog). You risk of corrupting your catalog.

Deleting any *.cocatalog file/folder will delete the entire catalog. That can not be your intention of cleaning up.

The *.cot files are thumbnail files. When deleted, they will be created again automatically. If you have duplicate *.cot files, deleting either the one the you do not use anymore or both after the required ones will be recreated.

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