Glad it all worked out.

Let me know if you have any other issues.

2-ton you might want to also go into GIMP preferences and allocate a bit more ram to GIMP...not sure how much you have but it usually makes it run a bit smoother if you do that

I've started a new bug report for this issue as it not just about the Open Image dialog; the filter windows open behind the main window as well. In the report I just mentioned this latter issue as I'm not sure if there is one issue or multiple.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677776

I think it's a gtk+ issue rather than McGimp issue.

oh dear, I"ve never done that before and am afraid I'll ruin the whole thing!!!! I'll look at it and see if I get the nerve, lol.
OK looked into preferences and there is no place labeled to allocate more ram, unless it's the tile cache size. How much would one want to add?

hitting enter gives me the closed selection, but it doesn't actually close the path...so on the path's dialog there are several path segments instead of one closed path.
I tried holding down the command key while clicking on the first control point. I also tried the same thing using shift instead of command and then tried control instead of command. Nothing closed the path. The only work around I could figure out was to hit enter to get the full selection, then merge all the path segments in order to get one single closed path.

2-ton, take a look at my response. Have you tried to the following? Do command-click on the first control point. This should close the loop.

Edit: OK, so you tried this as well. It seem to work for me. Maybe you have to stroke the path?

Tonight it worked fine. but I had done that yesterday and it didn't work????? perhaps I messed it up by trying too many things one after the other?

anyone know how to get two different finder windows open at the same time .... I want to be able to drag and drop scripts, fonts, gradients, and plug in's from 2.6 into 2.8 if possible.

@2-Ton multiple finder by command+N can open multiple windows

thanks....and I can copy and paste scripts from 2.8 into 2.8, yay. I was going to do all of them, then decided to pick and choose for now. Macs are supposed to be more intuitive than windows, but I am still finding out how to do stuff in my mac that I learned much faster in windows, but I love my mac. In the year and a half that I have had it, it's not gotten any slower while all my windows computers have always gotten slower and slower. The one we have now is very annoyingly slow even after I have tried all sorts of clean up.