Barrowman

I can confirm that this "workaround" seems to solve the problem. It's a bit of a pain if you forget of course, but seeing as resolving this doesn't seem a priority for Serif, it's all we have.

I've got the opposite now, can't get it to NOT happen, even after a number of restarts of the app, so stuck having to export loads of artboards individually.

So a couple of V.2 updates and and exports still this isn't fixed (no surprise) at this point. I reall feel quite annoyed that V2 didn't address this, and yet I was still dumb enough to pay for the upgrade. FIX IT FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!! The sunk-cost of using Affinity, with these issues is becoming less & less of a motivation to stay.

Yes mine's working now but I'm loathed to switch off my machine now, because it means I might not be able to export artboards in bulk again, until I've shut everything down multiple times.

Yes for some reason they seem unable to. Doesn’t inspire me at all to invest in their V2 software at all (even if I can accept the shockingly dire icon redesign - who seriously was asking for this?)

Yes I have a number of cloud services running, Dropbox all of the time. Google Drive, One Drive and Box at other times.

Yup, same old damn problem, try and change a folder from whatever it defaults to, and beachball of death. This time trying to select folder on Desktop. What a let-down. I was annoyed enough that they never fixed it on version 1, but to carry it over to V2 really dampens any enthusiasm to repurchase.

Revisiting this as nothing has improved (what's happened to updates anyhow?), I can't even get beyond anything in dropbox folder now, before Affinity crashes. It doesn't do this when I export from Photoshop etc, so it's wholly Affinity that is giving me this problem.

Any updates on this? Had similar things happen to me in Publisher and it's so frustrating, working wonderfully then suddenly boom beachballs and then it never improves.

I suspect that too, caused no doubt by the awful Mac security settings which hound us at every action now.

This happens in Photo as well, when going to save, export etc, intermittently as soon as the file dialog window opens, the beachball appears and never stops spinning, needs to be force quit. Then second time it works fine. Feels like you have to get the first time crash out of the way to be able to work in it without a problem thereon in.

Thanks @stokerg I'll give that a shot!!

Hi, I'm finding Designer more and more unusable due to the the amount of time it spends beachballing. I'll start working and everything is flowing wonderfully, suddenly it then starts beach-balling on the most innocuous of things, ie select something. Then it just becomes a total pain. I have a MacBook Pro 16" M1 MAX with 32GB of RAM. I does the same on my 13" M1 Macbook as well. Any idea what could be causing it, as it is a real pain, I used to love this app, but now I dread using it.

Hi, haha I'm still not sure why those colours are showing there though, but very glad to have sorted my masking out. Even though it does feel like the white going 0% opacity seems quite a bizarre behaviour. Thanks all.

Not when you're painting with white clearly selected in toolbar and swatches and it's not making a difference. And I was referring to "why there were colours in my grey palette", to which I have no idea and wondered if it was a bug. Wow people seem pretty touchy, did the haha imply something other than mirth. @NotMyFault saw the problem and resolved it with a simple observation, which was great. - Thanks.