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As I said, it occurs also with an upgrade. The irritating thing is that when upgrading, I cannot set the path. When I install manually it works when I specify a different path. I'm not sure whether I did a complete fresh install, but then of course I'd have to do a fresh install of 3.07, and check the automatic upgrade to 3.08. -> screenshot please. When installing manually, there's a dialog asking for the paint.net path, I'm sure everyone knows it. In there, there's a default path (C:\program files\paint.net). However, if I don't change this, the error occurs. If I do change this, paint.net luckily still gets installed in that directory, as the path specified is the path the MSI is installed in. As I described previously, the paint.net path is cleared afterwards, including the MSI if I keep the default path (and it then complains it cannot find the MSI - duh!). No, removing of the old paint.net works flawlesly. There's no problem installing when I manually specify the path to a different location. The main problem is when doing an automatic upgrade, since that always fails as I cannot specify the path then. JAL

As I said, it occurs also with an upgrade. The irritating thing is that when upgrading, I cannot set the path. When I install manually it works when I specify a different path. I'm not sure whether I did a complete fresh install, but then of course I'd have to do a fresh install of 3.07, and check the automatic upgrade to 3.08. -> screenshot please. When installing manually, there's a dialog asking for the paint.net path, I'm sure everyone knows it. In there, there's a default path (C:\program files\paint.net). However, if I don't change this, the error occurs. If I do change this, paint.net luckily still gets installed in that directory, as the path specified is the path the MSI is installed in. As I described previously, the paint.net path is cleared afterwards, including the MSI if I keep the default path (and it then complains it cannot find the MSI - duh!). No, removing of the old paint.net works flawlesly. There's no problem installing when I manually specify the path to a different location. The main problem is when doing an automatic upgrade, since that always fails as I cannot specify the path then. JAL

Bumping, as it is still present in v3.08. JAL

Bumping, as it is still present in v3.08. JAL

Bumping, as the problem still exists with the 3.08 automatic upgrade. JAL

Bumping, as the problem still exists with the 3.08 automatic upgrade. JAL

Well, various programs (even MS ones) act differently, so I guess in theory it may be possible for paint.net to remember the default (I'm no .NET programmer though, so I'm not entirely sure). The Details view never does, only the thumbnail view does. But even then, once Windows has processed such a directory, it doesn't proces the files again, unless they have been changed, or the thumbs.db file is removed. That is extremely weird. As I said, it should happen only once. What happens if you navigate to that directory with the Explorer in thumbnail view? You can navigate using another view (e.g. Detail or List), this should not cause the behaviour you described. I agree, it would be a nice feature if PDN remembered both the directory and the view mode it was left in, and/or had a setting to specify it. JAL

When opening a file, usually it is added to the list of opened files. There is one situation however, when opening a file replaces the currently opened file (as if it were paint.net v2.x). To reproduce (with v3.07): 1) open paint.net by starting the program (i.e. not by editing a file) 2) optionally make changes to the canvas and save (saving an empty canvas also works) 3) open an existing file -> the existing file replaces the file just saved It doesn't do so when the canvas is changed but not yet saved, and it doesn't do so when opening a file and then another. JAL

Perhaps this has been mentioned before, but a quick search didn't come up with the problem I'm experiencing. The problem is this: when a new version is availble, Paint.net asks me to install it. If I agree, the installation fails, because the MSI package cannot be found. When I install manually, I can enter the installation path. This is however not the Paint.net path, but the path to install the MSI in. If I agree with the default path offered there (program files\paint.net), the same failure happens as with automatic install. If I choose e.g. c:\temp, installation succeeds. What seems to happen here is that when installing, the MSI (or files created from it) are placed in the installation directory, but then the installer removes the entire program files\paint.net directory, including the MSI files. I'm not sure why it chooses that install directory, but when automatically upgrading, I cannot change it, so that always fails. EDIT: My search was too quick, as I just saw this post: http://paintdotnet.12.forumer.com/viewtopic.php?t=4631, which is probably the same problem. EDIT 2: I'm not sure whether the solutions listed in the 'Are you having problems uninstalling or installing' thread fix the above (of course I did read that thread before posting this one) JAL

Like Rick said, it's the standard Windows open dialog. That means that you can select the view, by pressing the 'view' button above the file area. Choose e.g. 'Details', and every folder you browse has details instead of thumbnail view. JAL