Re: [Gimp-user] File Saving in Windows

[Patrick Shanahan <paka opensuse org>]

* tastethewine <forums gimpusers com> [09-08-19 07:00]:
> > вс, 8 сент. 2019 г., 12:16 tastethewine <forums gimpusers com>:
> > Because it's a known issue with a 3rd party library that GIMP uses
> > (and
> > most other programs don't).
> >
> > Alex
>
> I see.  Thank you for the response.  So it appears that I must develop
> an infrastructure for exploiting the Rewrite feature and be thankful for
> it!  That seems the most palatable among my unpalatable options: Switch
> to Linux?  I have terabytes of files in NTFS

that is not a problem, linux reads and saves to ntfs format fine.  I have
external usb drives formatted ntfs by the manufacturer that I use for
backup and/or transport frequently.

> Purchase PS?  Expensive and I would have to Rube Goldberg a workflow to
> recreate what I can do in GIMP so easily anyway.
>
> Okay I will get to work on it.  Just frustrating that fetching the
> directory was not a problem for at least ten years that I have used the
> program, and now it is.

look for a remote drive that fails to load, maybe red X on the icon.

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