Sparr wrote: > Maybe I just want to 'touch' the file and saving is the fastest > possible way to do that. > > Perhaps I modified or deleted the file on disk, and want to save the > copy that exists in GIMP over whatever is on the disk. I am not sure > if GIMP is already aware of this situation Valid point. If I am trying to save to recover a deleted file this becomes a data loss scenario. > > In some situations, the Save operation produces dialogs from the > export plugin, which do not affect the image in GIMP but do affect the > saved image. What if I just want to change the decisions that I made > there? (again, this may already be handled well). In the same way that I had to make a small edit to save the comment because of the parasite bug, if I want to resave a jpeg with various compression ratios until I get a suitable result , I would presumably have to Save As... to serval new files and clean up with a file manager later. When I have to start looking for work arounds like this , the interface is trying to be too clever. Let me drive ! /gg _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer