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Help! My Gimp won't work

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Help! My Gimp won't work troy mccombs 01 Oct 03:21
  Help! My Gimp won't work Alexandre Prokoudine 01 Oct 03:54
  Help! My Gimp won't work Michael Schumacher 01 Oct 18:37
troy mccombs
2012-10-01 03:21:37 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Help! My Gimp won't work

I downloaded Gimp about a year ago. Just recently, I upgraded it to the 2.8 thing. Well, when I open the old version, it doesn't work. It worked when I opened the new version. Just to be safe, I tried uninstalling the old version, but couldn't get it to uninstall when I clicked UNINSTALL. Okay, so I left it there.

The new version has worked fine until two days ago. Every time I click on it, it freezes and says "GIMP has stopped working". I tried again to uninstall the old version, but it still would not let me. I even tried system restore and still, couldn't get the new version to work. I don't know what happened. It was working absolutely fine until just a couple days ago. What can I do to fix this?

I thought of uninstalling the new version and reinstalling, but am terrified of losing a few files I've done recently...

Alexandre Prokoudine
2012-10-01 03:54:23 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Help! My Gimp won't work

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 7:21 AM, troy mccombs wrote:

I thought of uninstalling the new version and reinstalling, but am terrified of losing a few files I've done recently...

GIMP's installer doesn't remove images you created in your home folder.

Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

Michael Schumacher
2012-10-01 18:37:34 UTC (about 12 years ago)

Help! My Gimp won't work

On 01.10.2012 05:21, troy mccombs wrote:

The new version has worked fine until two days ago. Every time I click on it, it freezes and says "GIMP has stopped working".

I'm assuming that this is happening on the Microsoft Windows platform.

There are tools to check what exactly a process is doing, e.g. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

GIMP (fontconfig, actually) might be rebuilding the font cache for whatever reason, this will show up as lots of reads of font files.