Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file

2010-06-20 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:29 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: Hi, Also I was really surprised that an auto backup isn't in GIMP already. I used to use a really old, backwoods photo editor and it automatically made a

Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file

2010-06-20 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 06/20/2010 06:45 PM, Sven Neumann wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:29 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: Better way would be to do what most text editors do. Create a backup of the old file (remember those files that end with a tilde '~'?) before overwriting it with the new save. It should be a

Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file

2010-06-20 Thread Sven Neumann
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:26 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jade for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I'm running the latest Ubuntu and it's probably more of a hardware issue than a software. When I say Gimp crashed, I mean that it froze up and then exited. I don't

Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file

2010-06-20 Thread Branko Vukelic
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: It is actually a very difficult fix. There are hundreds of save plug-ins and all would have to be fixed. Also GIMP plug-ins may save using a helper plug-in that transparently enables saving to remote locations. It is definitely

Re: [Gimp-user] Help recovering a bad .xcf file

2010-06-20 Thread Branko Vukelic
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 7:34 PM, Sven Neumann s...@gimp.org wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 03:26 +0200, Branko Vukelic wrote: On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Jade for...@gimpusers.com wrote: I'm running the latest Ubuntu and it's probably more of a hardware issue than a software. When I