On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:22:36PM -0600, Bell wrote:

I am straight up a novice, I don't like the fact that now that I have The Gimp installed, it took over any and all image folders, and will only open them in Gimp. I do not want my windows folders, or other program folders to be "ran" automatically through Gimp. Please help. Also, if I uninstall Gimp, will the images that it commandeered be lost, or will they go back where they should be with their "ME given"name?

i think you can change that behaviour by setting something in that windows manager thing -- i can't remember the name of it now. Display Manager? it has been a while since i used windows, but they set it up so that you can tell it which application to use to open different kinds of files.

as far as removing it goes -- the gimp i use only knows where the images it has touched are on my desktop. it scans only its own resources on start up and does not attach itself to any of your images. you can remove it cleanly and quickly that way.

i am curious, during the instalation process, did you agree to have gimp manage all of your images? your problems are due to your initial conversation with the installer i think and not with gimp itself.

i am sorry it was not a nicer experience for you.

carol

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:22:36PM -0600, Bell wrote:

I am straight up a novice, I don't like the fact that now that I have The Gimp installed, it took over any and all image folders, and will only open them in Gimp.

There is a feature in windows called file associations that allows users to select what programs will be used for various files, based on the file extensions. You can change those associations easily enough. The details vary with different version and I do not have ME installed here, but here is a link to a detailed article about modifying file associations in windows me:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;262808

Carol Spears wrote:

i am curious, during the instalation process, did you agree to have gimp manage all of your images? your problems are due to your initial conversation with the installer i think and not with gimp itself.

Pretty sure that Carol is correct, I've never installed gimp on windows, but I would be very surprised if the windows installation changed the associations without asking.

Mike

Mike Williams writes:

Pretty sure that Carol is correct, I've never installed gimp on windows, but I would be very surprised if the windows installation changed the associations without asking.

The current 2.2 installer asks during the install, and defaults to "no" for all file types except maybe XCF (which of course it should claim). The defaults seem exactly right. Of course, if you check them all on, then GIMP will claim all those file types, but that's an action the user has to take.

If there's a case where GIMP makes those file associations even though you didn't select the checkboxes, I'm sure the windows gimp maintainer would want to hear about that. (But GIMPwin-users might be a better place to ask about that.) When we tried it here, it worked fine and didn't claim any image file types it shouldn't have.

...Akkana

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First off, what has happened here is no more catastrophic than a simple file association issue. Uninstalling the Gimp is totally unnecessary just to try to correct a problem which is not really a problem. In Windows Explorer, you can simply click on "Tools" "Folder Options" and then "File Types" to look for the file extensions that you wish to re-associate with a different program.

Secondly, even if you do uninstall the Gimp, you will not lose any of your images. Not even the ones you may have created with the Gimp. After all, they are just images, not an integral part of the program software itself. The uninstaller would not know of their existence. Also, they will remain with the name they were given in the location they were saved.

Hope this helps.