Re: [Gimp-user] finding layers after file has been closed (.... so much for the new export/save methods)

[Jay Smith <jay JaySmith com>]

On 11/18/2012 03:57 PM, jenn golden wrote:
> I totally understood what you both said - but I didn't know that I had
> to save it both ways - I only saved it, or exported it at a .jpg... Does
> that mean I can't recover the .xcf?
>
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Smith <opened to gmail com
> <mailto:opened to gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     what he said. that's what i meant when i said before that you would
>     still have the layers, that you had the .xcf file somewhere.
>     :)
>     dan


I don't want to "start anything", but this just points out what I said 
originally: It is not possible to always protect everybody from themselves.

I am very sorry for Jenn's misfortune and I do not mean to be 
disrespectful.

However, this is an excellent illustration that this "controversial" 
change in the save/export methods is not a perfect solution either.

Jay