Re: [Gimp-user] Undesirable File/Open Behavior

["Owen Cook" <owen cook gmx com>]

> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 at 3:22 PM
> From: "George Misdary" <geomz yahoo com>
> To: "gimp-user-list gnome org" <gimp-user-list gnome org>
> Subject: [Gimp-user] Undesirable File/Open Behavior
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> OK, so I’ve noticed what seems to be a bug in GIMP. I’vegotten it to do this three times now. 
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> I’ll post it in a more appropriate location, once I confirmI’m not crazy.
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> If I have a gimp session open, and have been working in itfor a while, I’ve noticed that if I double-click 
> on an XCF file, to open it;GIMP dumps my existing open session, with NO warning whatsoever, and 
> reopensanew, with the requested image. 
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> Any (unsaved) work done in the previous session simply…vanishes. 
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> Subsequent attempts to open other XCF files from that pointon, just open a new window, as expected; in the 
> same session. 
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> I’m not sure what it takes to trigger the other less desirable…let’s call it ambitious open/file process, 
> other than time. After it does this…thing, I can open and close GIMP repeatedly and it works as one would 
> expect –openinga new window in the same session. But for some reason, after a session has beenopen for a 
> while (think days), clicking an XCF file to open it, causes theexisting GIMP session to 
> abort/abend/awhig-out?
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> This is 2.8.14 on a Windoze 7 machine.
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> Thoughts?




Well it doesn't behave like that with LinuxMint-17.2, maybe a Windows thing?



Owen