I'm trying to save or export a pattern in GIMP 2.10 in Windows 10. I opened Folders in Preferences and set C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\patterns as my writable patterns folder. Then I went through the drill of using Filters > Map > Tile Seamless to prepare my image. Finally I tried Save As, navigating to my patterns folder, naming the file Pink1.pat, and clicking to save. That resulted in an error message directing me to the Export function. That resulted in the attached error message.
Since that didn't work, I went back and selected the other available option,
C:\Users\slipp\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\patterns, as my writable folder. This time I went directly to Export As, but got no further than C:\Users\slipp. At that point, I found no AppData option, only a .gimp-2.8 folder.
I was able to export as pink1.pat into that folder, but then had to copy and paste into the C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\... folder to access it from within GIMP.
That worked, but seems like a bug. Why doesn't GIMP let me export directly into the folder I need to use?
Since that didn't work, I went back and selected the other available option,
C:\Users\slipp\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\patterns, as my writable folder. This time I went directly to Export As, but got no further than C:\Users\slipp. At that point, I found no AppData option, only a .gimp-2.8 folder.
I was able to export as pink1.pat into that folder, but then had to copy and paste into the C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\... folder to access it from within GIMP.
That worked, but seems like a bug. Why doesn't GIMP let me export directly into the folder I need to use?