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So GIMP kept crashing on me when importing 48 bit TIFFs. I threw a trace at Codex (without so much as a local GIMP repo) from which it figured out that the culprit was thumb preview handling code. It suggested turning off two non-obvious to me options that would circumvent that codepath it indeed worked.

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It's not like this is an unknown gimp problem - conventional search turns up plenty of results describing this class of bugs and advising to disable the previews.

You don't need to give it a local repo to work from, it'll just hammer the forge web interface to look at the code :)

I know and that's what it did. This is just to point how minimal effort from my side it have been.

I've had nothing but trouble with Mouse Without Borders on my Surface Pro. I let ChatGPT loose to try and find the reason. It found some wifi power settings that affected it and some other stuff. Those fixed some issues but I was still getting disconnects. It found some events in the event viewer, connected them to an open github issue. So I had it download the code and fix the issue. It eventually fixed two separate issues. And I had it replace the installed MWB with the compiled one on system startup. Things seem to be working great.

Also, nothing sucks like Mouse Without Borders holy heck.

Hi! Would you be willing to share one of those TIFFs? If we can reproduce the crash, we can try to fix it.

Hi, I'll be happy to help! How do I submit?

Thanks! Our tracker is a good place to post the issue report and image: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/work_items (If you can, zip it beforehand, as sometimes metadata that causes problems gets stripped out when uploaded to the tracker)

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