GIMP Version: 2.6.11
Operating System: Windows
OS Version: XP - SP3
GIMP Experience: Advanced Level

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I refreshed script-fu and this is what came up...



Can anyone help me figure out what I should do to fix this?

My guess is that you have duplicates of your scripts installed. I would check all directories specified in "Edit->Preferences->Folders->Scripts" to see if the same files appear more than once.

Hi, this was usual to me, also maybe it is due (a gimp-chat expert told it to me..) to wrong characters in one of the scripts, probably because it has been recently edited with a text editor which put info in it about editing criteria, i.e. not simple text; look at those scripts you have added/modified recently or - if you can't remember - move scripts a group at a time into a new folder in user/.gimp-2.8/scripts folder and link only that folder in preferences, sooner or later you will find the assassin...

On the face of it means your scripts are trying to register themselves in the menus in two different and conflicting ways. However it's highly likely this is being caused by you having duplicates of your scripts. I'm fairly sure I've seen the coffee stain script duplication before because it's one of the GIMP supplied ones, but there's another script-pack (FX-Foundry???) that comes with a duplicate.

You could try installing and running my check for duplicates script: http://gimpscripts.com/2011/11/test-for ... e-scripts/

Kevin

by saulgoode and dinasset

I thought that this was maybe the issue and looked around. It's very difficult to say what's duplicated, but this may well be the issue. The error says that the scripts are pointing to other places.

Thanks for you feedback on this.

@dinasset,

That sound like a good plain of attack, but I'm not sure I'm up for the fight.

Anyway, thanks for your suggestions.

@paynekj,

I'll give this a whirl and see what comes of it. I did find one of the culprits, a duplicate script of course.
I think this might do the trick, but we'll see.

Thanks paynekj! Didn't know there was such a script.

With GIMP's default setup, there are two directories dedicated to Script-fu scripts. On Windows* these two directories would be something akin to C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\scripts and C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\.gimp-2.8\scripts. I would advise against ever placing additional scripts in the first folder -- this folder should, in my opinion, remain in its "factory default" state. This approach will minimize the likelihood of duplicate scripts being installed and causing problems. At a minimum, it will make it easier to locate duplicate scripts.

It also makes it easy to restore GIMP to its default state without having to re-install -- just move your C:\Documents and Settings\yourname\.gimp-2.8\scripts folder to someplace safe and then run GIMP. A new scripts folder will be created, populated with only the files that originally ship with your GIMP installer.

* On GNU/Linux your system-wide script directory will typically be /usr/share/gimp/2.0/scripts and your user's script directory, /home/yourname/.gimp-2.8/scripts.

Yes I recommend that script written by paynekj. It works great.