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After installing BIMP, I'm still not able to see the Batch Image Manipulation... menu item under the File menu.

I'm using MacOS Big Sur 11.7.6, and GIMP version 2.10.34. I downloaded gimp-plugin-bimp_macos.tar.gz from the BIMP 2.6 release page

I extracted the archive, and then ran the install script, which produced the following output:

Last login: Sun May 14 00:45:05 on ttys002
/Users/me/Downloads/gimp-plugin-bimp_macos/install ; exit;

The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
me@M-Macbook-2 ~ $ /Users/me/Downloads/gimp-plugin-bimp_macos/install ; exit;
mkdir: /Users/me/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins: File exists
BIMP is installed. You can close the program.
logout
Saving session...
...copying shared history...
...saving history...truncating history files...
...completed.

[Process completed]

The first time I ran GIMP I got a warning about BIMP not being allowed to run. So I went into Mac's Security & Privacy settings and clicked to allow BIMP. I then closed and restarted GIMP.

However, I don't see any sub-menu for batch image processing in the File menu of GIMP.

I've tried re-installing BIMP by executing the install script several times to no avail. In GIMP > Preferences > Plug-ins there are two folders which already exist:

/Users/me/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins

I am launching GIMP from the /Applications folder. I installed and upgraded GIMP through homebrew.

What else can I do to get the Batch Image Manipulation... menu item to show up in the File menu?

@mstorus I encountered this issue on my machine tonight and was able to get it running by creating the following symlinks and restarting GIMP:

$ ln -s /Applications/GIMP.app /Applications/GIMP-2.10.app
$ ln -s /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lib

@alessandrofrancesconi Looks like there is an issue with dynamic linking in latest BIMP. I noticed that when I run the bimp executable in the terminal directly it produces a cascade of Library not loaded errors:

$ ~/Library/Application\ Support/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins/bimp/bimp
dyld[6934]: Library not loaded: @rpath/libgimpui-2.0.0.dylib
  Referenced from: <236E0F75-B90F-361A-8D93-BBA512B15B13> /Users/ian/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.10/plug-ins/bimp/bimp
  Reason: tried: '/Applications/GIMP-2.10.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgimpui-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Applications/GIMP-2.10.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgimpui-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file), '/Applications/GIMP-2.10.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgimpui-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file), '/System/Volumes/Preboot/Cryptexes/OS/Applications/GIMP-2.10.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libgimpui-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/local/lib/libgimpui-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libgimpui-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file, not in dyld cache)

But, these were easy to workaround via symlink.

Thank you @ianpurvis, after creating the two symlinks above I now see the Batch Image Manipulation... File menu item!

I also had problems until I created the two symlinks and now it works great!

All help appreciated. Haven’t used unix in forever (Solaris was a long, long time ago.) Anyway, I’m trying to use BIMP on Sonoma and I can’t create the 2nd link.

% ln -s /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lib ln: /Applications/GIMP.app/Contents/Resources/lib/lib: Operation not permitted

Doesn’t work with sudo or ln -sf.

Help!

@JJ-in-Jersey In Settings > Privacy & Security > App Management, turn on Terminal.

While this let me create the 2nd symbolic link using the terminal command, I still can't get the BIMP menu item to show up. I'm on Ventura 13.6.3, BIMP 2.6, GIMP 2.10.36.