10-06-2018, 07:47 AM
Problem apparently solved .
I decided to make the big jump and installed 2.10.6 . The crashes disappeared for the time being .
So , clearly , there was something in 2.8 what had a problem with large files (or with its interface to Windows) and we'll never know what it was .
Btw my computer is rather top end recent hardware so that the crashes can't be related to CPU power , graphic chip power and memory , RAM or disk space I have many Gigas of all that available .
The strange part is that GIMP simply and immediately crashed to desktop as soon as I clicked on "save file" with no error message from GIMP or Windows .
Thanks for the kind help .
I decided to make the big jump and installed 2.10.6 . The crashes disappeared for the time being .
So , clearly , there was something in 2.8 what had a problem with large files (or with its interface to Windows) and we'll never know what it was .
Btw my computer is rather top end recent hardware so that the crashes can't be related to CPU power , graphic chip power and memory , RAM or disk space I have many Gigas of all that available .
The strange part is that GIMP simply and immediately crashed to desktop as soon as I clicked on "save file" with no error message from GIMP or Windows .
Thanks for the kind help .