Hi
I start by saying that I'm kinda a newbie with (gimp) palettes
When I created palettes until 2.8 version the colors were stored in gimp 2.8 ->palettes, it was useful as I could copy them for back-up purposes or migrate them in another machine like a laptop, but since version 2.10, I can't find the new palettes I created with the latest gimp anywhere, I used search function many times and only the old ones are still there. What when I have to change my PC soon and I want to import the colors from 2.10 to the new machine?
I tried export option: working only .txt and .css extensions, with the other formats gimp says error during the process
Import: nothing of the two remaining above is working, gimp says there isn't any color to import...
I tried to export an indexed .png and import colors from there (so I can use pngs as backup and for migration) but gimp says that the palette is unknown...
As far as I can tell the palettes are still i the same place in the Profile (but of course the profile has moved between 2.8 and 2.10). Use Edit>Preferences>Folders>Palettes to see where Gimp keeps your palettes.
Btw, my PC has 2 account profiles if this makes a difference and I've Windows 7.
I went to c:/programs/GIMP 2
searched for "palettes" and I found only the default ones (from Bears.gpl to Web.gpl) at
C:\Program Files\GIMP 2\share\gimp\2.0\palettes
I must have done already this search months ago with the same results
Then I typed "palettes" from Windows start button and my system found 2 outdated folders from .gimp.2.8 where the newest palettes are missing (the ones I used for back up and migration purposes).
I also searched several times the name of the last palette I've done, both with Windows start button and with the search files option from C: but with no results.
Ofnuts was referring to this one, the Gimp 2.10 default User folder for palettes
C:\Users\"yourname"\AppData\Roaming\GIMP\2.10\brushes
Exact location will show in
Edit -> Preferences -> Folders -> Palettes
Appdata in Windows is a hidden folder see:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help...dden-files
Thank you both, I'm sorry to have wasted your time because I found this solution by myself just 22 minutes ago when you submitted your solution, that's exactly the location
I was too hasty to submit my previous message while my very slow PC was still searching for the palette name to find that location directly from C: (the search engine in start windows isn't as effective), but as I did this search in the past with no findings, I was sure about a negative result again
I don't think this folder with palettes was missing in previous 2.10 versions otherwise they wouldn't have been available in the GUI, and I didn't mistype the keyword, I'm baffled
Can I delete ".gimp-2.8" folder?
(02-11-2019, 11:42 AM)M.V. Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think this folder with palettes was missing in previous 2.10 versions otherwise they wouldn't have been available in the GUI, and I didn't mistype the keyword, I'm baffled
Was this in Windows 7? Microsoft got the search feature in Windows 7 very badly wrong. It was never fixed in the time that I was using Windows 7.
If you want to search for the word "palette" you can't just type "palette" in the explorer search field. You need to enter this:
System.FileName:~="palette"
Fixed in Windows 10
(02-11-2019, 11:42 AM)M.V. Wrote: [ -> ]Can I delete ".gimp-2.8" folder?
Depends what is in it. Gimp 2.10 on first run, when it creates the Gimp 2.10 user profile, copies resources (brushes, patterns etc) from the .gimp-2.8 folders.
Best way is back it up somewhere safe in case you ever need it again.
Yep, Windows 7 here, and to be on the safe zone I'll keep that Gimp 2.8 folder.
Thank you all again!