DUAL INSTALLING 2.8 & 2.10 ?

[StageMan]

(05-22-2021, 06:42 PM)rich2005 Wrote:

Quote:...snip...  That told me that when I uninstalled 2.8, that a configuration file or files were left behind and 2.10.22 obviously recognized and used the files that were left behind. When technically!...  2.10.22 should have overwritten everything during it's Install.

Not quite, When first run Gimp creates a user profile for user settings and resources. This is persistent and keeps settings between Gimp updates. The Gimp 2.8.x profile is C:\Users\"yourname"\.gimp-2.8 and for Gimp 2.10.x it is the hidden folder C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10

When Gimp 2.10 supersedes Gimp 2.8 the 2.8 resources are migrated to the Gimp 2.10 user profile. Not always with great results.  If you need a 'clean' Gimp 2.10 installation disable the Gimp 2.8 user profile (rename it), delete the Gimp 2.10 user profile, restart Gimp 2.10 and let it make a new profile.

Quote:But I'm going to do an experiment first. I'm going to extract from both the 2.8 and 2.10.22 Installers, and put those files in separate directories under Program Files and run them and see what happens!

From memory Gimp 2.8 was reasonably portable, Gimp 2.10 is not as compliant. Extracting from the installer is not as straight forward as running inno-extractor The installer contains versions for both 32 and 64 bit Windows OS.

Quote:What's you opinion on the PortableApps Platform for running a portable Gimp...

The more recent portableapps Gimp 2.10 tends to be somewhat flakey. You could try a Gimp 2.8 portable though.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/portabl...0Portable/

Partha is not the only Gimp 2.10.x portable for Windows there is one here.
https://samjcreations.blogspot.com/2021/...21024.html

Thank you much Rich!