If I go to my Apps Folder, there is no visible icon for my copy of Affinity Photo. Yet there is a discernible blank space, with the logo for Affinity Photo. When I click on the space, Affinity Photo opens okay. I can then load a photo and work on it. But if I then save my re-worked photo to my desk top and close AP, and then try to open AP by clicking on the photo icon that I saved to my desktop, I receive a message telling me that I need to purchase valid copy of Affinity Photo, because what it calls the current Beta copy will not open . For your information, I was one of the first, I am sure, to have purchased a valid copy of AFF Photo when it was released (I had already purchased a copy of AFF Designer a few months previously. Subsequent to my purchase of AFF Photo, when testing for a new Beta of was offered to me, I accepted it. I later signed on to test the Beta of AFF Designer, too.) Now, it seems, Affinity must have overwritten my Beta copies of both AFF photo and Designer, for neither of them are visible in my Apps Folder. And yet, every time I try to open AFF Photo by double clicking on a photo I have saved to my desktop in the AFF proprietary format, Affinity attempts to get me to re-purchase AFF Photo. I will say that Apple seems to get it right, because I can open my copy of AFF Photo from the Apple App Store page. Apple knows that I have purchased a legal copy of AFF Photo, so why doesn't Affinity itself seem to know that?
