Just a thought, that I don't think anybody's suggested yet, is what operating system are you using? I mean I know you said you did a lot of work on it before you took it into Gimp, so perhaps you have still a version of it that is pre-Gimp somewhere else, CD USB etc, or better yet, might be able to access a backup point on Win 7 or Time Machine etc on Mac to go back to a previous version? I've never even set up . Machine on mine, but I see it is available, and I have used restore points on Windows 7, which actually worked amazingly well... Just a thought. Dan
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On 6/17/12, Liam R E Quin <l...@holoweb.net> wrote: > On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 11:45 -0700, Angela D wrote: >> I spent a lot of time editing this photo and when I uploaded it into >> gimp to further edit and attempted to save, it would not. > > > Note for the future - use Save to save a copy in xcf or xcf.gz format if > you will be working on it again. If there is only one layer then save in > png so other programs can open it. Then, use File->export (or in gimp > 2.6 or before, file->save) to save a snapshot in jpg, e.g. for the Web. > > Second note - if there are error messages when you save, make sure the > saved file is OK before quitting - this is try with any program, not > only GIMP. > > I've lost a lot of work when the power went out in an unexpected storm, > and been frustrated too, so I do know how it feels. > > > My guess is that your disk is full, or you ran out of memory, because > there's no image in the file you sent. It's possible it was a bug in > gimp, but without knowing exactly what you mean by "I uploaded it into > gimp to further edit and attempted to save, it would not" we can't be > sure. For example, how exactly did gimp refuse to save? Was there no > save menu item? Was "Save" there but when you tried you got a message > saying it didn't work? What message exactly? There are more than a > thousand possible messages you could have got, many not from gimp but > from your computer or your network, and if there _is_ a bug it's not > going to be possible to fix it without knowing that. Otherwise you might > as well say "my car is doing something wrong and won't go and now we had > to stop in Bognor Regis overnight so you must tell me what is wrong with > my car" - the mechanic will want to know if it has fuel, if there are > warning lights, and if it stopped before or after it hit the brick > wall :-) :-) > > Best, > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml > > _______________________________________________ > gimp-user-list mailing list > gimp-user-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list gimp-user-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
