PeetSneekes

@Hangman saved the day!

@NathanC I could send it to you in a DM. I'd rather not share the project file (again) publicly as it's an ongoing project. I love for the developers to crack this.

Alright, quick update on @Hangman's comment: your document did open correctly, but as you indicated, is quite a mess. All of a sudden I have a huge amount of masters en and there were a lot of doubles. I choose not to recover, but incrementally alter, save, close and reopen the file. The problem did seem to come from page 41 and it seems to be one image that did not sit right for some reason. It's an asset I have copied and pasted from Affinity Designer, like many others, but apparently this one created the crash. Rather than past as content I now used the 'place image' and that worked. I'm now on the road to recover and further the file from the latest version. Hopefully I will never see this behaviour again. It is very jarring that a complete program crashes on a file that I'm editing, but I do understand software development, so I understand weird stuff happening. Thanks for the tip and the effort. Cheers!

Hi @Hangman , thank you so much for the warm welcome, looking into the file and the amazing response time! I will look into the page and see if the text-flows are correct. Is this 'rebuilding of pages' something I can also do? What are commonly things to prevent this from happening in the future? Once again thanks so much. I will report back for results.

Hey, I'm kind of stuck and also in a pinch. I've been building this lovely project since a couple of weeks and since 'some' change in my project it crashes publisher immediately when I reopen it after a while. The document did not crash Publisher when I edited it, and saved it in between. The differences between the project shared and the version before this, is deleting empty pages, replacing two or three assets and adding a new text. I have tried previous tips like choosing OpenGPL and switching to something different. I also tried to place the file in a different drive, but no results. Publisher 2.0.4 MacOS 13.2.1 (22D68) (both Intel and Apple M1) For the life of me: I don't know what changed that makes this project crash Publisher. If I knew I would stop doing it. Love to hear your suggestions and Affinity to please fix this! Kind regards, Peet EDIT: I removed the files as a curtsy to my client. Rest assured, we cracked it. Follow the thread for more details and thanks for all the help! I hope I can return the favour soon.