Error Message

[Owen Jones]

Hi,
I keep getting the same error message.
How do I either disable or deal with it, please?
It's driving me mad :-)

Excessive number of Xmp.photoshop.DocumentAncestors tags found: 1001. Only keeping the first 1000 values.

Thanks,
Owen

[Ofnuts]

Is that when opening an image in Gimp? Is this a specific image? The message appears to complain about Adobe-specific metadata (more or less the Photoshop history of the file). If this is always the same image, you can try to delete the XMP metadata (with ExifTool or else).

[rich2005]

Is this from the latest Gimp 2.10.32 ?

From the release notes: Libgimpbase:

- Limit to 1000 ancestors when importing images with incredible amount
of Xmp.photoshop.DocumentAncestors tags, which is most likely due
to a bug in some versions of Photoshop (in some PSDs, we encountered
over 100,000 such tags; it probably makes no sense that a document
could have that many ancestor documents). GIMP will now stops at
1000 such tags before dropping the rest and continue loading the
file.

Can you turn the messages off ? I do not know. Ask the developers https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues

You could try this switch in the gimp shortcut --console-messages

(which does Do not popup dialog boxes on errors or warnings. Print the messages on the console instead. )

[Owen Jones]

(06-17-2022, 08:14 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Is this from the latest Gimp 2.10.32 ?

From the release notes:   Libgimpbase:

- Limit to 1000 ancestors when importing images with incredible amount
of Xmp.photoshop.DocumentAncestors tags, which is most likely due
to a bug in some versions of Photoshop (in some PSDs, we encountered
over 100,000 such tags; it probably makes no sense that a document
could have that many ancestor documents). GIMP will now stops at
1000 such tags before dropping the rest and continue loading the
file.

Can you turn the messages off ? I do not know. Ask the developers https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues

You could try this switch in the gimp shortcut --console-messages

(which does Do not popup dialog boxes on errors or warnings. Print the messages on the console instead. )

Sorry, we had a 22hr power cut.
Yes, the very latest version.
I am editing a book cover for the various languages, so yes, the original image is the same.
I already looked at console messages, but I couldn't see how it might help me.
Thanks :-)

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(06-17-2022, 07:08 AM)Ofnuts Wrote: Is that when opening an image in Gimp? Is this a specific image? The message appears to complain about Adobe-specific metadata (more or less the Photoshop history of the file). If this is always the same image, you can try to delete the XMP metadata (with ExifTool or else).

Yes, a specific book cover. I a translating it into several languages.
Sorry, I don't understand your solution, but it sounds right :-)

[rich2005]

Quote:...snip...I already looked at console messages, but I couldn't see how it might help me...

It might hide those annoying messages, It is a standard Gimp command switch. In Windows add it to the shortcut as:

   

..but then I do not have an annoying PS .psd to try see if it makes any difference.

[Owen Jones]

Hi Everyone,
After two days of the sae annoying message appearing every time I edited a picture, it has stopped!
I have done nothing to cause this, although I was going to try some suggestions this bright Monday morn.
And it stopped misbehaving... just like that!
Best wishes,
Owen