Installed GIMP ****table recently to give it a second try. There are
so many numerous threads on various forums and also while googling on
the helpbrowser.exe problem but no solution that works. I tried
everything. Have dl various help packages yet I still get the same,
consistent message:
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"helpbrowser.exe Message
The GIMP help files are not found.
Please install the additional help package or use the online user
manual at ..."
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I'd like to access the help file without going online, not only
because I prefer an offline solution. I also have a friend who needs
a graphics package and GIMP will be great once I get the help
situation resolved which has been going on for weeks now. She doesn't
have access to the internet.
I followed all suggestions here but nothing:
http://gug.sunsite.dk/forum/?threadid=3967
I may have made an error with the registry im****t file in that I named
it .reg. Perhaps the error there is because it should use another
type of extension I'm not familiar with, that I don't know. But in
any case, the registry files modified with my particular path just
don't work. I get this error even when im****ting into regedit:
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Registry Editor
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Cannot im****t C:\Do***ents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Gimp
help file.reg: The specified file is not a registry file. You can
im****t only registry files.
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OK
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Second reg example given didn't work either:
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Registry Editor
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Cannot im****t C:\Do***ents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Gimp
help file- new.reg: The specified file is not a registry script.
You can only im****t binary registry files from within the registry
editor.
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OK
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Which couldn't be im****ted anyway, so that didn't help.
The self-contained help files themselves which were another dl, I
transferred to here:
L:\IMAGE\imgADV, GIMP ****table v2.4.6\APP- GIMP ****table v2.4.6\Other
\Help
So that I have 2 folders like this after copying everything:
L:\IMAGE\imgADV, GIMP ****table v2.4.6\APP- GIMP ****table v2.4.6\Other
\Help\en
L:\IMAGE\imgADV, GIMP ****table v2.4.6\APP- GIMP ****table v2.4.6\Other
\Help\images
Still nothing. When I click on help in GIMP, I still get the above
helpbrowser.exe message.
I even found where helpbrowser.exe is in the plugins folder and moved
it into the help folder. Nothing.
Can _anyone_ tell us what the heck is wrong?! There is no solution in
the ****table forum nor anywhere else. I'm sure, and hoping, that the
solution is simple. I can't function very well without the help file,
I'm too new to GIMP and need GIMP ****table not the installed version.
Thanks in advance.
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