RSS/Atom feed Twitter
Site is read-only, email is disabled
  1. Chat
  2. Useful links
  3. Polls

Featured content

Gimp 2.8 and OSX Mountain Lion

This discussion is connected to the gimp-user-list.gnome.org mailing list which is provided by the GIMP developers and not related to gimpusers.com.

This is a read-only list on gimpusers.com so this discussion thread is read-only, too.

3 of 3 messages available
Toggle history

Please log in to manage your subscriptions.
Gimp 2.8 and OSX Mountain Lion fastedd 04 Aug 22:59
  Gimp 2.8 and OSX Mountain Lion helene brennan 05 Aug 00:48
  Gimp 2.8 and OSX Mountain Lion helene brennan 05 Aug 00:54
fastedd
2012-08-04 22:59:04 UTC (over 12 years ago)
postings
1

Gimp 2.8 and OSX Mountain Lion

Start up Gimp and get an error message as follows:

Unable to open swap file. GIMP has run out of memory and cannot use the swap file. Some parts of your images may be corrupted. Try to save your work using different filenames, restart GIMP and check the location of the swap directory in your Preferences.

When I check preferences, the path to the swap file is not correct. My path is user to Application to Application Support to Library to Gimp.

Any ideas?

Ed

helene brennan
2012-08-05 00:48:23 UTC (over 12 years ago)

Gimp 2.8 and OSX Mountain Lion

I had the same problem - took me a long time to sort it out. I have Lion.

Select your hard drive. Then 'get info' - (I think from the file menu I'm not quite sure as I'm not on the mac now).

You then get a box allowing you to change your permissions - down at the bottom. change the relevant user (your own ID) to 'read and write'. It worked. Good luck.

Helene

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 11:59 PM, fastedd wrote:

Start up Gimp and get an error message as follows:

Unable to open swap file. GIMP has run out of memory and cannot use the swap file. Some parts of your images may be corrupted. Try to save your work using different filenames, restart GIMP and check the location of the swap directory in your Preferences.

When I check preferences, the path to the swap file is not correct. My path is user to Application to Application Support to Library to Gimp.

Any ideas?

Ed

-- fastedd (via gimpusers.com)
_______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list
gimp-user-list@gnome.org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list

helene brennan
2012-08-05 00:54:25 UTC (over 12 years ago)

Gimp 2.8 and OSX Mountain Lion

Sorry - to follow up on that previous email, I forgot that the next step was to go to preferences while in the Gimp program - I think this was in the file or edit menu, but you must go to preferences in Gimp, not mac. You get an option to change folders. Click folders and change the given options to tmp. You may have to create a tmp folder. This doesn't work unless you have the correct permissions set as before.

Helene.

On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 11:59 PM, fastedd wrote:

Start up Gimp and get an error message as follows:

Unable to open swap file. GIMP has run out of memory and cannot use the swap file. Some parts of your images may be corrupted. Try to save your work using different filenames, restart GIMP and check the location of the swap directory in your Preferences.

When I check preferences, the path to the swap file is not correct. My path is user to Application to Application Support to Library to Gimp.

Any ideas?

Ed

-- fastedd (via gimpusers.com)
_______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list
gimp-user-list@gnome.org
https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list