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11 hours ago (This post was last modified: 11 hours ago by sl60.)
I'm still using version 10 (I like it!), but I've been working on a file that's 8100x5400 and suddenly everything is frozen. I've worked on many files this size (and bigger) before with no problems. I can't save, delete, x out of windows, etc. Computer is fine otherwise. Any ideas?
Oddly, the marching ants from a previous selection are still active and the windows I have open within the program can minimize and maximize.
I found this on Reddit--is it safe to try?--

I don't know why it works, but killing "GNU Image Manipulation Program Plug-in" on taskmanager brought GIMP back to life. It showed an error message, about the "failed" plugin and I was able to save my file.
Not sure what I just did but accidentally I closed the program--now it works fine. But I lost several hours of work. is there any way to recover it?
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10 hours ago (This post was last modified: 10 hours ago by sallyanne.)
Sorry, but unless you previously saved your work you cannot.

As for gimp freezing it's probably best to try and remember what you were doing at the time and report it. You say you have worked on files much bigger than this before but what was their size in MB /GB? Even a smaller x/y image can have a large size after being worked on.  Best to save your work as an xcf occaisionally as it will save almost everything - then you will not have to start over if your gimp freezes and you have to shut it down/ or if you mistakenly close gimp.

As you found out - if your gimp ever freezes on you again you may have to close your computer down and start it up again to get gimp working as it should again

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(11 hours ago)sl60 Wrote: I'm still using version 10 (I like it!), but I've been working on a file that's 8100x5400 and suddenly everything is frozen. I've worked on many files this size (and bigger) before with no problems. I can't save, delete, x out of windows, etc. Computer is fine otherwise. Any ideas?
Oddly, the marching ants from a previous selection are still active and the windows I have open within the program can minimize and maximize.
I found this on Reddit--is it safe to try?--

I don't know why it works, but killing "GNU Image Manipulation Program Plug-in" on taskmanager brought GIMP back to life. It showed an error message, about the "failed" plugin and I was able to save my file.
Not sure what I just did but accidentally I closed the program--now it works fine. But I lost several hours of work. is there any way to recover it?

Hard to tell with just this. 45MPx are big images and can make you computer swap (whether it's Gimp's own memory swap or the OS general memory swapping). On a SDD it's not too bad, but on a full HDD this can seriously degrade performance.

In some cases the problem can be in a process running a plugin, in which case killing that plugin just goes back to Gimp. But you have to make sure you kill the plugin and not Gimp itself.

Sometimes on startup Gimp notices that it closed a bit abruptly previously and tries to recover data, but this is a hit-or-miss.
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