(3 hours ago)ink_stroke Wrote: ..snip..
During the past weeks, I spent a lot of time on learning how to use this software and on working on my first projects. I'm a comic drawer and create different sorts of printed products with my images.
It wasn't before yesterday that I opened a file to realise that one of its layers had disappeared - the most important one I had spent many hours of work on.
I had no idea what could have led to that incident; but I've ended up creating dozens of backup files on different drives.
However, this morning, just the same thing happened again with two other files on an external HDD. In one file, the main image was gone, in another one, a text layer. Now I'm scared even to open any other files with GIMP because I never know
Any hints would be highly appreciated!
It has never happened to me unless I make the mistake, maybe a do a merge down by error and lose a layer. If you spot it then you can undo.
What format are you saving the files ? - Gimp xcf I hope. Some multi-layer formats .psd / tiff / .ora might lose some properties such as editable text.
Are you using any of the new functions such as linked layers. ?
Always sensible to make backups.
To save a little bit of effort there is a Gimp 3 autosave here: https://script-fu.github.io/funky/hub/pl...-autosave/ Actually 2 links the almost-autosave .zip is separate from the installation help. I have tried this in the past and it worked then.
Do you have any of those references where users have lost layers ? No good giving me Reddit / Facebook / anything-social.