Ashley_W

No, the picture frames were not inherited from a master page. There is very little on the master page. Thanks for the tip. I recreated the document from scratch and it's been smooth sailing!

Thanks everyone! Since others have managed to recreate and isolate the entanglement issue , I am going to skip the request for a screen recording. I am very new to Affinity Software (this is only my second project) and can confirm that I was not intending to use symbols because I didn't know they were a thing. It's possible I inadvertently hit a button or keyboard shortcut that activated it. The orange bar on the left of those layers caught my eye but I couldn't figure out what it meant. At the moment, I have only purchased Publisher, not Designer or Photo.

I'm glad to hear it is not expected behaviour and now I'm thinking it is perhaps a corrupted file because it is crashing the program when I interact with some of the objects. This file was created in 1.7.1 and that's when I started experiencing this odd behaviour. I upgraded to 1.7.2 hoping it would fix it and then the crashing started. I have since created a new file from scratch and rebuilt all the elements and everything seems to be working fine. Attached is the problematic file so you can troubleshoot what might be happening. To reproduce the quantum-entanglement issue, try copy/paste on the text-frame with the heading "Gamdis Tlagee" and then move the text-frame. What happens for me is that it looks like there is no second text-frame because they both move together. And if you hide one of them in the layer pallet, the other hides also. And on the second page of this document, if I move or interact with any of the empty picture-frames, the program crashes. Thanks for your help! ashley conservation highlights report - 190815.zip

I'm not clear what the rules are for synchronization and defaulting, but it is not intuitive. I've got some text-frames in a file which, when copied, mirror every change I make to the original object, even the position and contents. Synchronizing the contents of a text-frame seems like very odd default behaviour and I can't figure out how to unlink them. Why would I want an object that does literally everything another object does? And then there are other text frames in this same file which copy/paste as expected, creating a new independent object. It seems if I duplicate an object instead of copy/paste, things work normally, so that's what I'll do from now on. However, if I duplicate an entire page, objects start doing this quantum-entanglement thing again. Almost seems like a bug but maybe there's a set of rules that I have been unable to find. Thank you in advance for your assistance. ashley