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Hello, I went to bed last night satisfied with a finished product. When I woke up this morning to make a few changes the project was "locked". I could not select any of the objects in the image. Initially, I thought only one project was affected. Not so. ALL of my projects are now locked for editing. I've uninstalled and re-installed GIMP 3.2.4 but to no avail. What could possibly cause this. I've also rebooted the computer several times. I'm at a total loss.
Thanks in advance for any help ...
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05-22-2026, 10:41 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-22-2026, 10:52 AM by sallyanne.)
How did you save them? Did you export as a jpg, png, tiff or other ...or save as a .xcf. The latter is the program's native image format and only with that can you make changes as it will save everthing you added except history. You cannot undo anything, that is part of the history. Once the session is finished there is no history anymore. Only guides, paths, selections, unmerged layers, layer modes etc. The layers still have the 'fx' next to them and they can be edited.
You cannot open this file in a lower version of gimp either.
