user.gmic (solved: must stay only gmic in Partha's release)

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 5:04 am **(#1)**

#David
sorry if I bother you again on that subject
my problem now is the following:
- my main user has gimp 2.8 installed (i.s. the stable version) w/gmic 1.6.6
- on this environment I put my file "user.gmic" under (user1)/AppData/Roaming and I see properly all my filters
- on my secondary user I downloaded the portable version of gimp 2.9 (Partha edition) with gmic 1.6.5, to give a try
- it seems that the portable version does not look into (user2)/AppData/Roaming where I copied my user.gimp file; this sounds reasonable, because if it is a portable version everything should be inside the folder gimp 2.9 portable
but where?
Can you help me again?
Thanks

ps: if someone else knows the answer because in a similar situation, he/she is welcome

Ronounours · **Joined:** Jan 03, 2011 **Posts:** 1656

Hello dinasset,
I've no ideas

Have you tried %APPDATA% as well ?
Maybe when running GIMP portable, the %APPDATA% environment variable is set to another (portable) folder ?

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 6:53 am **(#3)**

thanks David, but my problem is my ignorance: where do I find how the environment variable %APPDATA% is defined inside the portable gimp folder?
I have phisically to put my user.gmic file there, not to reference it.

MareroQ · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:47 am **(#4)**

You could:
Update Filters GMIC
Search for (software) gimp_update.lock
Check the date and time.

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 7:56 am **(#5)**

done
that file is empty
date and time of this morning (not now)
path is (user)/AppData/Roaming/gmicrc

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:13 am **(#6)**

SOLVED
my last attempt solved the problem
in the portable Partha gimp version the file for the user defined filters should have the PREVIOUS NAME: simply gmic and not user.gmic

thanks for your attention to my problem

#David: I don't remember exactly which version introduced the new name, Partha's G'MIC compiled version is 1.6.5.0
did the name change only in 1.6.5.2?

karo03de · **Joined:** Jul 02, 2013 **Posts:** 59

In general it might be helpful to select Various->Custom code (global) and type in the Code window "-text $_path_user,50,0,15,1,0" and click at Update. If your image is not black you will see the necessary information!

dinasset · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 8:56 am **(#8)**

thanks, but on my PC it didn't work

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MareroQ · **Posted:** Tue Sep 15, 2015 9:38 am **(#9)**

Only once for all drives?
That would mean that this version GMIC is not possible to update!

MareroQ · **Posted:** Wed Sep 16, 2015 11:50 pm **(#10)**

http://www.partha.com/
Partha wrote:

Quote:

September 16, 2015
The Windows GIMP 2.9 portable is currently broken. Please use the regular version while I fix it. Thanks for your patience.

dinasset · **Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2015 12:05 am **(#11)**

yes, I wrote messages to Partha about it:
1-included G'mic is not as expected 1.6.6.0 pre but an old one (March)
I had to download the regular version, extract from there the two G'mic components and now it shows 1.6.6.0 pre (then I had to rename again my filters file as user.gmic)
2-but Gimp itself has something wrong in it: the rescale function makes colours disappear