Should I reinstall

[Grimpo]

I've got 3.2.4 on a new comp, but I'm finding that GIMP is not playing well since I installed it. All sorts of funny things are happening. Sometimes the Healing tool behaves like a Clone tool, sometimes drawing processes crawl along at a snail's pace, you can see it creeping along, sometimes the file type for exporting is different than the regualr type even though I'm exporting the same type of image, etc etc.

Before I go to all the trouble of giving the comp some diagnostic surgery, I'm wondering, will it help to uninstall and reinstall GIMP? Or is that pointless?

Thanks.

[sallyanne]

Unless you downloaded it from somewhere other than the official site https://www.gimp.org/ I wouldn't. There is a folder you can rename and gimp creates it again when you next start-up.


Or it could be that some of the settings have changed in the new installation too. Make sure your healing tool isn't 100% opacity but around 65%.

Often times restarting your computer. Or turning it off altogether and back on after letting all the power drain out. At least 20 minutes, should fix problems.

[rich2005]

(3 hours ago)Grimpo Wrote: ---snip---
Before I go to all the trouble of giving the comp some diagnostic surgery, I'm wondering, will it help to uninstall and reinstall GIMP? Or is that pointless?  

Unless, you actually messed about with the Gimp 3.2.4 system files, pointless. It makes no difference, all your settings are stored in your User Profile which remains between installations.

One thing you can look at is if you came from using Gimp 2.10 and still have a Gimp 2.10 User profile. Look for something like (1).  Gimp does try and migrate some settings from an existing User Profile.  Rename the GIMP folder, start Gimp and it makes a new GIMP folder with a default (clean) Gimp 3.2 User Profile (2)