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On 10/24/2019 at 9:24 AM, Pauls said:

That's good to hear - If the file was form a beta version I would recommend remaking the tables from scratch in the release build

The project was completely created in the new version. I appreciate your comment though as I do have a few beta projects that may be resurrected at some point!

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16 hours ago, fde101 said:

What about losing a week's hard work?

 

This should make no difference.

Thanks for that tip. 

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On 10/24/2019 at 5:39 PM, thetasig said:

You may already know about this, but it saved me from losing hard work. Inside the Preferences is a setting for "Performance/File Recovery Interval." This automatically saves changes periodically.

During the Beta, AFPUB crashed on me a lot. So I set this to 90 seconds. It took that long to open my large document. Right after a crash, I just restarted AFPUB and it offered to open the recovery file, and the document changes were always intact.

It's a setting that I left in place just in case, but AFPUB has been fairly stable since the latest version.

I didn't know that. Thank you so much, that's really useful. Good to know you're not having problems with AFPUB now. 

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Thank you Paul. Affinity hadn't properly quit (probably why I couldn't open it) but I managed to force it to eventually and restarted. It's all back; Affinity Publisher, and my file! I'm so amazed and very relieved. Thank you to everyone for all your help. H

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Thank you for these helpful answers. I didn't realise about Time Machine, and sure enough when I checked just now, there was the file. I haven't restarted since it happened 'cos that once meant I lost stuff but I'll go ahead and try it now. I did wonder if I should have deleted the Beta version of Affinity which is still in my applications folder. 

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I'm new to Affinity, and completely new to forum posting. But having enjoyed the Beta version of Affinity I went ahead and bought the finished product. And I really love it. I've been working on a project all day and just now lost the lot. The spinning ball came in while I was making a table and I had to 'force quit'. Now I can't open Affinity at all, and there is no sign of my project in the folder. It just doesn't exist!! I regularly saved of course, but it isn't backed up as it's not end of day one. I'm on a MacBook Pro OS X Yosemite. Any suggestions? Has this happened to anyone else?