05-30-2025, 04:19 PM
Here is the continuation of the previous post (sub-titled Part 1).
119 shows the pop-up of a window that is a type of Save window. In this case, I actually clicked on the Discard Changes button. All the years I've used GIMP, I have always chosen this option. I discovered somewhere that I had to make this choice to keep the file in question. It has never discarded any changes. [While I have been trying to figure this problem out myself, I actually tried choosing the Save As button, but it didn't make a difference.] 120 shows what happened after I clicked on the Discard Changes button. This is very strange, in a way, because, with the earlier version of GIMP, the entire GIMP window disappears. In fact, all the previous windows that opened do not look like the 'same' ones that appear when using the earlier version of GIMP. I used some other method to close the empty GIMP window. 121 shows the image which I opened a minute later in this later version of GIMP. As can easily be seen, everything on the canvas that was not what was selected (and rotated) turned into a big, black field. I did not want this to happen. I wanted the image to stay fully intact with the exception of what I edited. Since this didn't appear as a preview, I didn't know this would happen. Therefore, the image is irretrievably changed -- and, in my case, rendered useless. Nothing like this has never happened while using the earlier version of GIMP, despite following the same steps in the same order.
119 shows the pop-up of a window that is a type of Save window. In this case, I actually clicked on the Discard Changes button. All the years I've used GIMP, I have always chosen this option. I discovered somewhere that I had to make this choice to keep the file in question. It has never discarded any changes. [While I have been trying to figure this problem out myself, I actually tried choosing the Save As button, but it didn't make a difference.] 120 shows what happened after I clicked on the Discard Changes button. This is very strange, in a way, because, with the earlier version of GIMP, the entire GIMP window disappears. In fact, all the previous windows that opened do not look like the 'same' ones that appear when using the earlier version of GIMP. I used some other method to close the empty GIMP window. 121 shows the image which I opened a minute later in this later version of GIMP. As can easily be seen, everything on the canvas that was not what was selected (and rotated) turned into a big, black field. I did not want this to happen. I wanted the image to stay fully intact with the exception of what I edited. Since this didn't appear as a preview, I didn't know this would happen. Therefore, the image is irretrievably changed -- and, in my case, rendered useless. Nothing like this has never happened while using the earlier version of GIMP, despite following the same steps in the same order.