WTCDBINFO(1)

💅 wtcdbinfo — bestie's guide to peeking at a WTCDB file

okay so picture this: it's a LOCAL manual page, the command is wtcdbinfo, and it's about to tell you everything it knows about a Windows Explorer thumbnail cache database file. yes, that's a WTCDB. yes, it's a whole vibe. let's go 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

wtcdbinfo — determines information about a Windows Explorer thumbnail cache database (WTCDB) file

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

wtcdbinfo [-ahvV] source

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

wtcdbinfo is a utility to determine information about a Windows Explorer thumbnail cache database (WTCDB) file. that's literally the whole job and it does it slayfully ✨

wtcdbinfo is part of the libwtcdb package. libwtcdb is a library to access the Windows Explorer thumbnail cache database (WTCDB) format. so like, the library is the main character and this lil tool is its hype squad 🫶

source is the source file. the one you're investigating. your subject. your person of interest 🔍

the options are as follows (brace yourself, there's literally five):

• -a — shows allocation information 👑
• -h — shows this help (hi, this is the help, you're looking at the help's cousin)
• -v — verbose output to stderr 🗣️
• -V — print version

💀 ENVIRONMENT 💀

None. no environment variables, nothing to config, it's giving minimalist. not a single env var to obsess over 🙈

🍓 FILES 🍓

None. zero files touched, zero files read besides your source, we love a low-maintenance icon 💅

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

so here's what it actually looks like when you run it:

# wtcdbinfo thumbcache_32.db
wtcdbinfo 20100912

Windows Explorer thumbnail cache database information:
        ...

the 20100912 is the version number it spits out, then it dumps all the info underneath. iconic behavior ngl ⭐

🧚 DIAGNOSTICS 🧚

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. and here's the lil catch — verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so like, if whoever built this didn't flip that switch, no amount of -v is gonna summon the debug lore 😭

🌈 BUGS 🌈

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libwtcdb/

bugs are not a vibe but reporting them is, so go off bestie 🐛

👑 AUTHOR 👑

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz. give credit where credit is due, periodt 💜

⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

Copyright (C) 2010-2024, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

read that NO warranty part again, bestie — all caps, no cap. it's free software and it comes with zero promises. use it wisely 🙏

🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

• wtcdbexport(1) — the sibling, go say hi

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and that's the whole page!! mwah 💖

this lil number came from libwtcdb and it's dated July 29, 2019 — yes she's been serving since 2019 and she's still iconic 🦋