Decided to do some housekeeping in my Windows 7-64 Gimp install today. First off I was determined to correct the extreme long launch time of Gimp 2.10.14. Noticed that I had 176 MB of extra brushes and 460 MB of extra patterns installed. Cleared out all but the basics and a few custom favorites, and that completely fixed the launch time problem.
This was originally a Gimp 2.8.x install that I updated to 2.10.14 a year or so ago. And when I did the update at that time, the install process found and auto-migrated all those brushes, patterns, plugins, etc etc to the new 2.10.14 install....AND PUT A MYSTERY DIRECTORY in my start menu labeled .gimp2.8 that I had pretty much neglected ever since.
For reasons explained in the following, I now want to delete all traces of the old gimp 2.8.x install...if I can do that without causing problems I'm too ignorant to know to expect. Can I safely delete those? Or are there hidden dependencies lurking beneath the surface?
To my uninformed eyes, it appears that everything crucial to Gimp 2.10.14 was migrated into the new directories created when the upgrade was performed, and I am no longer using Gimp 2.8.x. So, will I cripple anything by removing the old brushes, patterns, gradients,plugins, etc directories that are present in this .gimp2.8 menu?
The reason why it's important to me is that today I also decided to install Partha's Portable Gimp 2.10.22 onto a flash drive, and during that install, the install process "found" all those old 2.8.x files and migrated them into the portable USB system....meaning I had to go through the portable install and repeat the pruning process I had just done on my console
It was truly a "oh god, where did all this junk come from AGAIN? moment...that I'd just as soon try to do away with completely, if possible.
I was surprised that the "Portable" install found my old 2.8.x resources that had been neglected for some time and annexed those instead of the freshly pruned 2.10.14 currently in use.
Even more of a surprise, while I was at it I decided to update the 2.10.14 install,....and found that 2.10.30 is now available, and went with that.
And was relieved to see that the 2.10.30 update found and used the resources from the 2.10.14 install, and not the older 2.8.x install .
So, is there any purpose to those legacy resources that I'll miss if I delete them?
This was originally a Gimp 2.8.x install that I updated to 2.10.14 a year or so ago. And when I did the update at that time, the install process found and auto-migrated all those brushes, patterns, plugins, etc etc to the new 2.10.14 install....AND PUT A MYSTERY DIRECTORY in my start menu labeled .gimp2.8 that I had pretty much neglected ever since.
For reasons explained in the following, I now want to delete all traces of the old gimp 2.8.x install...if I can do that without causing problems I'm too ignorant to know to expect. Can I safely delete those? Or are there hidden dependencies lurking beneath the surface?
To my uninformed eyes, it appears that everything crucial to Gimp 2.10.14 was migrated into the new directories created when the upgrade was performed, and I am no longer using Gimp 2.8.x. So, will I cripple anything by removing the old brushes, patterns, gradients,plugins, etc directories that are present in this .gimp2.8 menu?
The reason why it's important to me is that today I also decided to install Partha's Portable Gimp 2.10.22 onto a flash drive, and during that install, the install process "found" all those old 2.8.x files and migrated them into the portable USB system....meaning I had to go through the portable install and repeat the pruning process I had just done on my console
It was truly a "oh god, where did all this junk come from AGAIN? moment...that I'd just as soon try to do away with completely, if possible.
I was surprised that the "Portable" install found my old 2.8.x resources that had been neglected for some time and annexed those instead of the freshly pruned 2.10.14 currently in use.
Even more of a surprise, while I was at it I decided to update the 2.10.14 install,....and found that 2.10.30 is now available, and went with that.
And was relieved to see that the 2.10.30 update found and used the resources from the 2.10.14 install, and not the older 2.8.x install .
So, is there any purpose to those legacy resources that I'll miss if I delete them?