Re: [Gimp-user] gimp startup failure

[Bernd Weber <weber freiburg freenet de>]

Hi Evan,

obviously it's not GIMP that caused the trouble, but windows. When
creating a new user account worked but not setting up the GIMP-directory
anew there got somethng wrong in the guts of windows.
GIMP doesn't store user data at another place.
I don't know where windows stores all configuration information for user
directories.
I would recommend you to migrate all user-data to the new directory or
to an exchange folder and to work on the new account. If you got some
time you can try to debug the old account.

As a hint, search for files which were altered shortly before or after
you killed GIMP in the task manager.

Thank you for the gold star. ;)

Hope you are lucky

Bernd

evan neumann schrieb:
> Bernd gets a gold star!
>
> Creating a new User Account worked. But now I am left with the
> quandary of whether to migrate all usage to the new account or try to
> troubleshoot this user account. I did delete the C:\Documents and
> Setting\ [username]\.gimp-2.6 folder and all of it's contents several
> times. Are there files elsewhere that I can delete?
>
> thanks, evan
>
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bernd Weber
> <weber freiburg freenet de <mailto:weber freiburg freenet de>> wrote:
>
>     That was what I have mentioned before:
>
>     To be more exact:
>     In your user-directory there is a GIMP-directory with your specifed
>     GIMP-Profile
>     You can either rename or delete it. Gimp will try then to create a new
>     one. If that doesn't work,
>     You can create a new user-profile in your windows XP-installation
>     an try
>     everything agein. May be there locally got something awry.
>
>     Hope you are lucky.
>
>     Bernd
>
>     James schrieb:
>     > I haven't been following this thread too closely, but have you tried
>     > renaming the profile directory?  I'm guessing something in there is
>     > corrupt, causing the hang.
>     >
>     > On XP it's:
>     >
>     >     C:\Documents and Settings\[your_username_here]\.gimp-2.6
>     >
>     > (Could also be .gimp-2.7)
>     >
>     > I'd rename that (".gimp-2.6-backup") and restart gimp.  See what
>     happens.
>     >
>     > -James
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