Re: [Gimp-user] Factory settings/reset to defaults

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri gmail com>]

* Taisheena <forums gimpusers com> [10-30-15 08:51]:
> > I'm not sure but I suspect if you terminate GIMP, take a copy of
> > Users\<user name>\.gimp-2.8 (just in case things go wrong) and then
> > delete the contents of that folder. Then when you restart GIMP
> > (hopefully) it should recreate the contents of .gimp-2.8 using the
> > default settings. If it all goes wrong termiate GIMP and restore the
> > original contents of the folder.
> >
> > Note that you would have to transfer and scripts, plug-ins, brushes
> > etc that you had installed from the back-up folder to the newly
> > created folder (when GIMP isn't running)
>
>
> I actually uninstalled the program, went in program  files and deleted that
> whole folder - is there some other place that GIMP saves settings to?

c:\users\<user-name>\
  look of any directory with a name containing "gimp" (remove quotes).
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