(11 hours ago)Joe Wrote: ---sorry--- I just had to delete all the redundant quotes for readability purposes ---
I indeed tried both methods of creating a new layer; with the layer command from the menu, and the button by the layer menu at the bottom of the screen, and both dispensed the same result - with the path information from earlier use.
At the time not long ago - I thought I was downloading the latest version of Gimp. I shall try to download the newest version and post results.
Thank you all for your responses.
Ok, that is more useful info.
The path information from earlier use. - That is separate from the layers and is common to all layers.
If you do not want to see the path(s) just go into the paths dock and toggle off the path visibility.
This is the paths dock. Note the colour difference between an active path and an inactive path and any of them can be visible or not by clicking on the "eye" icon.
Edit: Gimp for Windows I would try straight from http://www.gimp.org