Hi, Jeremy Cortner <jcortner@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I've written a plugin and at one point in it stores image file copies > of each layer. > I don't want to (re)write files if the layer hasn't changed since the > files modification date. (think make) I think the closest you can get is to use gimp_image_is_dirty: http://developer.gimp.org/api/1.3/libgimp/libgimp-gimpimage.html#gimp-image-is-dirty Please note that this function is not available in the GIMP-1.2 API. Salut, Sven