Can not import image from WWW (Gimp Error)

mmb · **Joined:** May 29, 2018 **Posts:** 3

Hi, I have the newest version of Gimp 2.10.2 on Win 7 and I can't import any image from the internet. Each time i try to do this I have this message
"volume doesn't implement mount"
Help

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

How do you "import"? Are you using "File>Open location..."?

Tas_mania · **Joined:** Nov 04, 2015 **Posts:** 1480

welcome to gimpchat mmb. I download images and then open them in Gimp. It's 'old school' but you have the original if you need to go back to it.

mmb · **Joined:** May 29, 2018 **Posts:** 3

Hi and thanks for reply, I know this 'old school' method so why there is an option File>Open location if it's not working ?

mmb · **Joined:** May 29, 2018 **Posts:** 3

ofnuts wrote:

How do you "import"? Are you using "File>Open location..."?

Yes I was using this method on Gimp 2.8 but now it is not working :bluesad

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2618

mmb wrote:

ofnuts wrote:

How do you "import"? Are you using "File>Open location..."?

Yes I was using this method on Gimp 2.8 but now it is not working :bluesad

It depends how Gimp is compiled.

Open location has/has not worked for me at various times/versions of Gimp since it was introduced.

At the moment for me with Kubuntu 16.04, both Gimp 2.8.22 and Gimp 2.10.2 (flatpak) open location does not work.

but

My PClinuxOS desktop, Gimp 2.10.2 it does work. If using Windows you could try-and-see with one of the alternatives, partha or samj

ofnuts · **Joined:** Oct 25, 2010 **Posts:** 4812

rich2005 wrote:

At the moment for me with Kubuntu 16.04, both Gimp 2.8.22 and Gimp 2.10.2 (flatpak) open location does not work.

Also on Kubuntu 16.04. Works on the flatpak 2.10.2, doesn't work on the 2.8.22 from the Gimp PPA....

rich2005 · **Joined:** Mar 04, 2011 **Posts:** 2618

Just goes to show, what must be two similar installations can come up with different results.

PClinuxOS machine is steaming away on a project, might be finished by midnight, so no screenshot from that, but it does work

racer-x · **Joined:** Apr 15, 2017 **Posts:** 1837

I just right-click on an image and choose "Copy Image", then I simply paste it into Gimp. Works every time in every version.

Pat625 · **Joined:** May 12, 2015 **Posts:** 4693

Racer, I can use your method with 2.8.22. With 2.10 Samj, it lets me do it once, after that, no matter how many times I select copy image, I always get the same first image when I paste.

paynekj · **Posted:** Fri Jun 01, 2018 3:03 am **(#11)**

Pat625 wrote:

Racer, I can use your method with 2.8.22. With 2.10 Samj, it lets me do it once, after that, no matter how many times I select copy image, I always get the same first image when I paste.

That's a known bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/1359