5.3. Error Console
| 5. Misc. Dialogs |

### 5.3. Error Console

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Revision $Revision: 2405 $ | 2006-07-15 | j.h

The Error console offers more possibilities than the single “GIMP Message”. This is a log of all errors occurring while GIMP is running. You can save all this log or only a selected part.

#### 5.3.1. Activate Dialog

You can access to this dialog in different ways:

- You will find this command in the toolbox menu bar through File → Dialogs → Error Console,

- But also from the image menu : Dialogs → Error Console.

- Or from the Tab menu in any dialog : Add a dock → Error Console.

#### 5.3.2. The “Error Console” Dialog

Figure 14.67. “Error Console” Dialog window

Clear errors

  This button lets you delete all errors in the log.

  | Warning
  You can't “undo” this action.

Save all errors

  This button lets you save the whole log. You can also select a part of the log (by click-and-dragging the mouse pointer or by using the Shift+Arrow keys key combination) and save only this selected part by pressing the Shift key.

  A dialog window Save Error Log to File lets you choose the name and the destination directory of this file:

  A dialog window Save Error Log to File lets you choose the name and the destination directory of this file:

  Figure 14.68. “Save Error Log to file” Dialog window

| Tip
You will as well find these button actions in the dialog sub-menu by clicking on .

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