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It stopped working again. I changed setting from OpenGl to Metal and it started working again.

Sure thing. Monitor Samsung CF791 Series 34-Inch Curved Widescreen Monitor https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01M1D7JVO/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 USB-C Hub Wavlink Universal USB-C/USB 3.0 Ultra 5K Laptop Docking Station with 4K Dual Video Outputs ,Support for Windows 7/ 8/ 8.1/ 10(USB-C in,DP and HDMI,Gigabit Ethernet,Audio out and Mic in,6 USB 3.0 Port) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06Y5B7BDD/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Resolution and scaling 3440 x 1440 Refresh Rate 50 Herts Preferences -> Performance (Do you mean energy saver) -> Display Power Adapter Turn off display after 10 minutes Put hard disks to sleep when possible Wake for Wi-Fi Network Access Enable powernap Graphics Displays Under System report Chipset Model: Intel UHD Graphics 630 Type: GPU Bus: Built-In VRAM (Dynamic, Max): 1536 MB Vendor: Intel Device ID: 0x3e9b Revision ID: 0x0000 Automatic Graphics Switching: Supported gMux Version: 5.0.0 Metal: Supported, feature set macOS GPUFamily2 v1 Gotcha, I think you were talking about within Affinity Designer. Ok, now when I open with my Dual monitor it is working again, so I am unable tot test if changing to Metal will solve. If it stops working again I will try it. Affinity Photo is working again as well. My experience has been when one stops so does the other. If it stalls again I will try both apps and report back.

Thanks @stokerg for all of your support.

## What's In My Way? Same symptoms : Affinity Designer opens just fine, but any time I try and create a file or open an existing file.afdesign it stalls/crashes (spinning beachball of death) ## What i'm rocking? Affinity Designer 1.7.3 (started happening after update?) Affinity Photo 1.7.3 MacOS 10.15 ## What I've tried * Systematically tuning off apps and seeing if it works (including those in my system tray, upper right) * Rebooting my system multiple times * Deleting and reinstalling a fresh copy of the app * Tried downgrading to 7.1 * Removing Library -> Application Support folders and Preference Panes * Holding control while launching, checking all the boxes, and clearing all data * Opening directly from file, from file open, from file recent * Creating file -> changing to various presets (e.g. web) ## What finally worked but is not a long term solution I disconnected my external monitor and opned directly on my laptop. Not sure why this allowed it to open. ## Please advise. Please review the Crash report and Advise, I would really like to get this working. Attached crash report to last post.

Started Crashing again, here is the Crash Report. Gonna go through a series of steps to see if I can correct it and report back here. CrashReport-2019.10.20-17.10.22.txt

Its now working again. really strange. If it happens again, I will post my crash report again. Hopefully it will just keep working.

Alright, its happening again. Even after updating to Catalina it has once again started crashing when attempting to open an affinity designer file - see notes above for conditions of problem. Please respond as I need to fix this as soon as possible, looming deadlines and all.

Looks like Updating to Catalina (MacOS 10.15) which took 14 hours worked. Hope no one else has to deal with that.

What's In My Way Affinity Designer opens just fine, but any time I try and create a file or open an existing file.afdesign it stalls/crashes (spinning beachball of death) Appears to be happening in Affinity photo as well. What i'm rocking? Affinity Designer 1.7.3 (started happening after update?) Affinity Photo 1.7.3 MacOS 10.14.6 What i've tried Searching the Affinity forums for an answer deleting and reinstalling a fresh copy of the app Removing Library -> Application Support folders and Preference Panes Holding control while launching, checking all the boxes, and clearing all data Rebooting my system multiple times Opening directly from file, from file open, from file recent Creating file -> changing to various presets (e.g. web) Reviewing changes in 1.7.3 What I've Attached Apple Crash Report.pdf Could not find Affinity Specific crash report (even tried following other threads using Apple's Console.app, no dice) What's Next Looks like you guys optimized for Catalina, gonna try updating my OS to see if that helps. Apple Crash Report.pdf