I don't know if it's corrupted or not but I deleted the whole folder containing the cracks brushes and redownloaded a fresh copy. This 'Cracks 34.gbr' is part of an old brush pack from Frostbo on DeviantArt. This is probably the offending brush but I haven't tested any other brushes out yet. So then I decided to copy the whole brush folder to another drive as a backup before I started moving brushes back into a normal folder named 'brush' and in the process of copying files to another drive, the system hung on something called 'Cracks 34.gbr' OK, so I did the brush file backup, started Gimp, it loaded completely. So what should I save as a backup? I've asked that quite a few times already. first I just want a clean install of Gimp to work and not hang at the splash. That means wiping out EVERYTHING, even the profile folder and assets but making backup copies of those to add back in later. I want to eliminate what may or may not be causing this. I don't want to simply overwrite the existing installation because it might not solve the problem snd could still have a bad file there somewhere. The reason I want to wipe everything out is on the off chance something is corrupted beyond repair, that it gets totally replaced with a fresh clean copy of Gimp and none of the old baggage from previous versions.

I should not be running out of memory, that never happened before either. Whether that was a log file or an actual error message box (the grey kind that pops up).

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