Ben in Texas

Oh my gosh, thank you for this!

Ok thank you Lacerto.

Ok, thank you Mike.

So what was the solution? I am having the same issue. Does it have to be an official "Column" and not just a Paragraph, or be at the bottom of a page? In my screenshot I have the single word "art" that I don't want to be a ghost or "widow" all by itself.

Thanks everyone. Thanks to you all, I learned that depending on which store I bought the applications, the assets are stored in differnt locations. I bought the Affinity suite 1 through Mac App Store. I bought Affinity Universal License Versions 2.0 directly on the Affinity website. I am not at my computer at the moment, but I’m sure I will be able to track them down. It’s sad Affinity Didn’t make that clear when purchasing/upgrading to Version 2. And I did search exhaustively here before submitting the questions, so thank you again.

Thank you.

Thank you, NathanC.

Thank you.

I am in an Assets quandary in Affinitiy Publisher 2. After installing Publisher 2 using Publisher 1 and created custom Assets there for years, now I have no assets in either Publisher 1 or 2. I thought I selected YES when asked if I wanted to use content from PUblisher 1 when I first opened Publisher 2, but nothing is in any of the Assets categories in my Publisher 2. I do have over a year of Time Machine backups and have been digging to somehow find the old Assets file that I can Restore and then import into my Publisher 2 version.. as the very thing you mentioned has happened to me, that is, my Publisher Assets have disappeared after installing and opening Publisher version 2, and it's been months since I've had to use any assets in Publisher 2, so it's just a week ago I noticed my Publisher Assets are gone. I was able to find and import an old assets file from 2020, but I have created several new Assets in either 2022 or 2023, and those are what's missing. So tonight before I tracked down and imported this old assets file from 2020 I found in old Time Machine backup folders, (I must have exported my Assets at one point and created this file as a backup), there were no Assets in my Publisher 2.0. What folders and locations should I look for old Publisher 1 Assets files in order to be able to Restore and import those into my Publisher 2 software? Did they change the Application Support location as the place Assets were stored on a Mac? I'm using MacOS 10.14.7 Catalina on late 2014 iMac 27" 5K. Thanks in advance everyone.

Ooops, I didn't ask you a question. I was wondering the same thing, do you know what folders in MacOS to look in for my old Publisher 1 Assets files? I have MacOS Catalina 10.15.7.

Hi Walt, I am in an Assets quandary in Affinitiy Publisher 2. In upgrading and installing Publisher 2, after having some custom Assets I created and used for years in in Publisher 1, now I have no assets in either Publisher 1 or 2. I do have over a year of Time Machine backups and have been digging to somehow find the old Assets file that I can Restore and then import into my Publisher 2 version.. as the very thing you mentioned has happened to me, that is, my Publisher Assets have disappeared after installing and opening Publisher version 2, and it's been months since I've had to use any assets in Publisher 2, so it's just a week ago I noticed my Publisher Assets are gone. I was able to find and import an old assets file from 2020, but I have added several Assets in either 2022 or 2023, and those are what's missing. So tonight before I tracked down and imported this old assets file from 2020 (I must have exported my Assets at one point and created this file as a backup), there were no Assets in my Publisher 2.0.

Here are my Performance Preferences, I assume they are the default values, as I don't remember ever changing them.

Hi @MEB, Thank you. I did not change the slider yet, I will do that. Yes the app is working fine now, and it was not just one file, it was several different files, all around 105mb as the Affinity Photo File. And it wasn't just files I opened from iCloud drive, (that is where I normally work from, iCloud drive). When I had problems like this with opening Photo Documents before, about 6 weeks ago, I moved them to Desktop and it still had exact problem, so I concluded that iCloud was not a problem. I did free up space AFTER it started working this latest go around. But before that I had well over 128 gb free on a 1.1 TB Fusiion drive and I would think that should be fine to open one 120 MB file, just like it's been fine for over a year, all while still have the same about of HD space free. BTW I have 24 gb RAM. 2014 iMac 5K. It also started working after having the same problem before, by me deleting a particular Application Support file, that I originally found through Affinity forums that led me to an Apple Forum that told which file to delete, I assume it was a prefs file, but I have no idea where that article is or the file it referenced. It mentioned that when Apple released Big Sur a couple months ago, they changed something the way MacOS handles apps purchased in the app store, and would sandbox certain Apps. This problem seems to coincide when that release happened, And I still haven't upgraded to Big Sur. These files are basic RAW photos taken with my iPhone 8+, not huge resolution or file size initially, around 14 MB each. I have never had this error, or any problem remotely like it, before the Big Sur MacOS release, which again, I have not upgraded to.

Well over 10% is free. I think it’s a Sandboxing issue especially after other things I read several weeks ago but cannot find them again after looking. And Espcially after resetting Photo back to factory settings it works fine immediately. Wouldn’t work if it was a full hard drive issue.

Thanks but working fine now. I don’t think that is the issue.