I need to know how to set my GIMP 2.8.14 back to original settings. I tried: reset to defaults and nothing happened.

I have somehow messed up my text settings so that my letters are smashed up, and the size of the text box won't increase. I make a text box, but the text stays in about .25% of the box and starts wrapping.

Also, I closed my toolboxes and I can not figure out how to get them back to the way they were when I downloaded the program.

Thank you for taking the time to read, I apologize if this was already asked, I couldn't find it in the forums.

-tai

ps I have windows 8.1 64 bit

I'm not sure but I suspect if you terminate GIMP, take a copy of Users\\.gimp-2.8 (just in case things go wrong) and then delete the contents of that folder. Then when you restart GIMP (hopefully) it should recreate the contents of .gimp-2.8 using the default settings. If it all goes wrong termiate GIMP and restore the original contents of the folder.

Note that you would have to transfer and scripts, plug-ins, brushes etc that you had installed from the back-up folder to the newly created folder (when GIMP isn't running)

I'm not sure but I suspect if you terminate GIMP, take a copy of Users\\.gimp-2.8 (just in case things go wrong) and then delete the contents of that folder. Then when you restart GIMP (hopefully) it should recreate the contents of .gimp-2.8 using the default settings. If it all goes wrong termiate GIMP and restore the original contents of the folder.

Note that you would have to transfer and scripts, plug-ins, brushes etc that you had installed from the back-up folder to the newly created folder (when GIMP isn't running)

That should have read Users\user name\.gimp-2.8 (but I put less than and greater than signs around user name and this text didn't appear in the post)

* Taisheena [10-30-15 08:51]:

I'm not sure but I suspect if you terminate GIMP, take a copy of Users\\.gimp-2.8 (just in case things go wrong) and then delete the contents of that folder. Then when you restart GIMP (hopefully) it should recreate the contents of .gimp-2.8 using the default settings. If it all goes wrong termiate GIMP and restore the original contents of the folder.

Note that you would have to transfer and scripts, plug-ins, brushes etc that you had installed from the back-up folder to the newly created folder (when GIMP isn't running)

I actually uninstalled the program, went in program files and deleted that whole folder - is there some other place that GIMP saves settings to?

c:\users\\
look of any directory with a name containing "gimp" (remove quotes).

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