Re: [Gimp-user] XCF doesn't open even when the preview is fine

[Michael Schumacher <schumaml gmx de>]

On 04.09.2014 02:24, Jehan Pagès wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Oliver Dillenburger <D-burger web de> wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I'm new with a problem that is bugging me.
> > I did spent hours on a pic with several layers, saving it regularly.
> >
> > Today I tried to open it. The preview shows the picture just fine but gimp states I need to open at least 
> > one layer to work.
>
> That reminds me something. Maybe someone on the list or in a bug
> report had a similar issue, but I can't find.

The issue with the additional zeroes in XCF files, to to an unexpected
(but apparently to be expected) behavior of fseek?

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730211

Reported for OSX, but there's no reason to assume it can't happen on
other platforms.


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Regards,
Michael
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