[lug] strange gimp behavior?

[D. Stimits]

"Trever C. Trader" wrote:
> 
> I would assume that you have proper permissions on the file to be able to
> write to it?

Definitely not the problem. The files are created with gimp running
under the same user in the user's home directory, owned by the user.
Even within the same session that creates the file, it fails, though it
claims to have saved.

> 
> On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> > That is strange behavior.  I would try upgrading your version of gimp.
> > They are up to 1.2 stable now.
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> > "D. Stimits" wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm trying to use gimp to create some png images, and wondering if
> > > anyone here has run into a rather bizarre and frustrating behavior,
> > > where it claims to have saved changes, but they don't really save? No
> > > matter what I do, I always have to make up a new name in order to save
> > > changes. When I save it acts as though it has, but hasn't. When I do
> > > "save as" and choose the original name, it asks if I want to overwrite,
> > > I say yes, and it claims it has saved...but it hasn't. Is this normal
> > > for gimp to require a new name for each save of changes? In order to
> > > work with the original name, I have to exit gimp and delete the original
> > > name file and copy the alternate name over. Very strange. This is on RH
> > > 6.2, gimp 1.0.4.
> > >
> > > D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
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