Wendy2525

Ahhh, spoke too soon. I found a persona! It is directly under file when you first pull it down. I have my Aphoto there, but not my Adesigner. Maybe I will try a reboot?

Thank you both for your insights. Attached is a screen shot (if I did it right...) I do have all three programs purchased and updated. I don't see Studiolink, so I went to "help" and this is what it said for Studiolink: "The Designer Persona and Photo Persona come directly from Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo, respectively. As such you need to have one or both apps purchased and installed to take advantage of that Persona. The options are unavailable otherwise." Persona's must be what they are calling it now, but it wasn't very clear how to find them or switch from one to the next. After updating, I did restart my computer, so I don't think that is the problem.

After I installed 3. update for all three programs, my apps are no longer linked together. Before, when I opened my Publisher file, the other two would open as well and would show on the top tool bar so I could jump between the three programs. Now, they are no longer linked and I have to open all three apps individually, which will make sharing and working on files between the three programs so much more difficult. Does anyone know why or have a solution to the problem? Was I on a beta testing or something because I read a question where someone "wished" they could do something like this, but I have been doing this for at least a year now... I want it back!!!!!

Okay, just reinstalling all three apps and it seems to be restoring them just fine. Don't know why I panicked and why I didn't think of that in the first place! Thank you for your help and keeping me calm. It is nice to have a place to go for help.

From what I can tell, they were completely erased from my computer. All that seems to be left are the shortcut files which do not work, and the unistall options on my start up menu. They are no longer in my apps. Why would that be?

I am installing on Windows...and I did purchase directly from Serif. I will try restarting my my computer.

Tried updating Publisher to 1.8, received: "Set up Failed' notice, however now locked out of publisher. I am not a computer wizard, but I thought maybe I needed to update my Designer and Photo first, so I tried to update them as well....big mistake. Received the same message. Now I am locked out of all of them. My work is held hostage and I am on a deadline! Please, could someone help me?