Blender crashing on image import

Hi all,

Has anyone had problems with blender crashing
when trying to add an image to a texture ?

It seems to happen intermittently when I’m traversing
directories… particularly if you go back a directory…

Is there any way to get around it ?

regards,
Matt.

No, and I used images of 10Megs and more as textures…

Stefano

I had the problem when I was browsing images. In some cases, when Blender tried to read a specific image, it crashed. Then I figured out which one causes the crash and re-saved it in some bitmap editor. Then it was OK.
Is it, what you get too?

Try to load with no thumbnails (load with file view).
I have this crash problem only on avi-s.

How you can turn off thumbnails?

to load with the file view window (instead of the thumbnail view) click the little bar to the right of the [load] image button (looks like a thin button, with no label)

there is one next to the [replace] image button as well with the same function