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I have just installed GIMPPortable 2.8.22
(32-bit) on a Windows 7 Pro (64-bit) machine.
I cannot open or save JPEG files. It seems there is something wrong GIMP trying to load the file-jpeg.exe
file, but I see no specific errors. All I get is unknown file type when trying to open a jpeg directly. And if attempting to export an xcf image, JPEG is not listed as an option. I can use PNG and other file types fine.
When I look at the plug-ins folder in Edit > Preferences
, these two folder are listed:
I:\apps\GIMPPortable-2.8.22\Data\.gimp\plug-ins
I:\apps\GIMPPortable-2.8.22\App\gimp\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins
The first folder does not exist. The file-jpeg.exe
file can be found in the 2nd folder (the installer put it there), along with all the other standard plugin files.
On a whim, I created the first folder and copied file-jpeg.exe
there...and GIMP then worked w/JPEG images as expected! Thinking to make file management easier, I then moved ALL the plugins to that folder..but then GIMP would fail again, as before.
I have noticed that the "file-jpeg" is NOT listed in the pluginrc file upon initial install. The pluginrc file is located here:
I:\apps\GIMPPortable-2.8.22\Data\.gimp\pluginrc
Once I copied file-jpeg.exe
to the 2nd folder and re-started GIMP, that entry was then found in the pluginrc file.
I have attempted to create and use the file GIMPPortable.ini
, containing a modified PATH
statement (a supposed fix to this issue), but that did not work.
So copying file-jpeg.exe
to the first plug-ins folder has got it working...but it is very hacky, and I'm sure I'm missing out on other plugins TBD later. So my specific questions are:
Why is this specific problem happening?
In general, is there a way to view error messages in GIMP?
Thanks.
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Gimp has an error console. This info is probably output to a log file somewhere, as well. You'll probably need to look at those errors in detail to answer your other question
– jpaugh – 2018-01-16T19:25:54.537@jpaugh, thanks for mentioning error console and providing the link. I checked it out. Unfortunately, it provided no more information than the graphical error dialog box that pops up. I tried having it write the errors to file, but that contained no additional output either. That made me think to look for a "verbosity" flag, though...details in solution. Thanks! – atreyu – 2018-01-17T15:23:27.693