Possible Anomaly (see photos)

TurboTech · **Joined:** Jul 02, 2018 **Posts:** 2

GIMP Version: 2.8.14
Operating System: Linux
GIMP Experience: Intermediate Level

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Good day to all.

Last night I was working on an overlay magazine cover project that I can just reuse with different photos (I shoot sports photography as a hobby).
I developed a xcf transparent file to overlay the underlying photograph and this morning I hit the undo on the xcf file to get rid of something and some squiggly lines appear that I can not get rid of. I went through every layer to try to erase the squiggly lines but they do not appear to be associated with any layer.
The oddity that I have now is that when I copy all visible layers and paste them to the underlying image, the squiggly lines are not there. I have turned gimp on and off and the problem still persists on the XCF file. Any thoughts or ideas on this?

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2603

Your squiggly lines are an inactive path(s) with visibility on. If you do not want to see them turn the visibilty off. If it is not required delete the path.

edit: That is all in the paths dialogue.

TurboTech · **Joined:** Jul 02, 2018 **Posts:** 2

rich2005 wrote:

Your squiggly lines are an inactive path(s) with visibility on. If you do not want to see them turn the visibilty off. If it is not required delete the path.

edit: That is all in the paths dialogue.

Problem solved. Thank you so much.

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

TurboTech wrote:

rich2005 wrote:

Your squiggly lines are an inactive path(s) with visibility on. If you do not want to see them turn the visibilty off. If it is not required delete the path.

edit: That is all in the paths dialogue.

Problem solved. Thank you so much.

If you want an explanation, you likely clicked a "text-along-path" button/menu by mistake.