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Hello,

I was hoping that someone might be able to help me with an issue with the scale tool promoting things to floating selections.

I've been using GIMP a while, and I've used the Scale button to rescale layer size before without an issue. The grid would appear, I drag the handles and then click on Scale, and the layer itself would be resized.

I recently had to reinstall GIMP on a different system, and now, when I use the Scale tool button, it automatically promotes the layer to a floating selection. It also leaves a selection square behind the original location/size of the layer. Moving the layer out of that space makes the part outside the original area disappear. It never did that before, and it's not useful behavior now. How do I make it stop doing that?

This is only an issue with the scale tool button. If I use the "Scale Layer" command in the layer menu, it behaves as it should. However, it's sometimes a lot more useful to be able to just shape the layer to what you need it to be with the handles, instead of using the menu option, which is less flexible.

Please help.

I didn't find the right solution from the internet.

References:
http://gimpchat.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=12349
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Thank you.