11-14-2022, 07:11 PM
(02-23-2022, 11:25 AM)rich2005 Wrote: Very rarely is a corrupt Gimp .xcf recoverable, especially from Gimp 2.8 and WindowsXP.
Take precautions and save your work frequently with incremental names. Pays off in the long run.
GIMP can corrupt files as storage gets low. It seems to use storage as its scratch disk as RAM runs low, then once storage has zeroed out, it has nowhere to either save the file or update the file as you edit it. By the time it starts giving you "warnings", it's too late. In the worst cases, even when you figure out some way to save the file, it's too late to prevent it from being damaged, and already-saved files open in the program also get corrupted. I do save multiple files with incremental names, but that of course only eats up storage faster.
The point is that, sure, users can take all sorts of precautions, but applications shouldn't be corrupting any, let alone saved, files. So has this problem been reported?