Re: [Gimp-user] Help With OSX El Capitan

[Ross Martinek <triarius12 gmail com>]

This is normal the first time launching GIMP with OS 10.11.6. After that it should be much faster unless you 
are loading a very large file. I just launched GIMP—5 seconds. Loading one of my 16MB files takes 30 seconds. 
May take a bit longer on a 2008 MacBook Pro, mine is mid 2010.

Ross


> On Dec 2, 2016, at 10:12 AM, Jollymath <forums gimpusers com> wrote:
>
> > This is probably just GIMP taking a long time to load fonts, which
> > does
> > happen after up-grading the OS.
> > It hasn't actually crashed, even though the window greys-out and OSX
> > might
> > complain that GIMP is not responding, the font loading is still going
> > on
> > and you just need to be patient.
> > Another user has recently been through the same thing with OSX 10.11
> > as
> > reported here:
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756092
> > The real problem is the ridiculous number and size of fonts which are
> > being
> > included with Windoze and OSX nowadays.
> >
> > The usual advice given on the forums now is just to start Gimp running
> > and
> > then leave it alone - don't even touch the keyboard or the mouse, just
> > get
> > up, walk away and go do something else for at least an hour. (Yes,
> > really!)
> > When you come back, Gimp will probably be up and running and you will
> > then
> > have no further problems.
> >
> > Having said that, we don't actually know how long it does take on OSX
> > 10.11. So, if you have the patience, perhaps you could actually keep
> > an eye
> > on your computer while GIMP is loading the first time (read the
> > newspaper
> > or something) and hopefully tell us approximately how long it does
> > take
> > ..is it 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, longer ?
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 9:07 PM, kelly wheelhouse <
> > kelly wheelhouse hotmail co uk> wrote:
>
> My 2008 MacBook Pro just loaded up taking about ten minutes to load fonts!
>
> -- 
> Jollymath (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)
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