Martin Hunt

Finally had the spare time to look at this in detail; tracked the startup using Xcode/instruments. The Affinity V2 applications were all crashing due to a failure to mkdir folder ~/Library/Group Containers/6LVTQB9699.com.seriflabs/v2 I had incorrect ownership permission set on folder 6LVTQB9699.com.seriflabs, after file recovery from a previous hard disk failure. All working now !! 😀

Hi Lee, If it is helpful, these are two further debug events from the console, reported immediately the application tries to launch;

Hi Lee. Tried downloading the trial version from the Mac App Store as you suggested but I have the same issue. Looked at the ethernet traffic egress from the Mac (using tcpdump) and I can see nothing untoward regarding connectivity (actually I see no traffic I can relate to this app at all). The Affinity apps are opening no windows at all - they are simply stuck showing the splash screens - so I'm not even getting to the point in startup where licensing or network connectivity would be relevant. If you need any further debug information please let me know. Thanks.

Intel i7 iMac running Catalina 10.15.7. Downloaded new Affinity Photo V2, copied to Applications folder successfully. Click to open. Splash screen shows, then disappears (but can be shown again by clicking on application icon in dock). Never proceeds any further. Right-clicking the dock icon and selecting Quit results in a crash (full report attached) Identical behaviour with Designer V2 and Publisher V2. Date/Time: 2022-11-09 22:23:38.822 -0500 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15.7 (19H2026) Report Version: 12 Anonymous UUID: 4A27FAA8-85A1-58D7-0657-FE4B1BACD125 System Integrity Protection: enabled Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: KERN_INVALID_ADDRESS at 0x0000000000000010 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11 Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb Terminating Process: exc handler [1278] AffinityPhotoV2Crash.txt

Thanks - that was very useful. I followed your steps and got the same result, which meant it wasn't my approach that was wrong or the mac/pc thing. Started over from scratch with my file, doing the same steps as before, and this time it worked as it should. Still not sure why it wasn't working for me the first time around, but moving on... Martin.

Hi, I'm trying to use a Procedural Texture filter (with a mask) to reduce the colour contribution of the Red channel and can't get the equation to work. If I set the Red Channel equation to "0.75*R + 0.25*G" then this works as I would expect, creating a destination red channel value based on weighted contributions from the red and green source channels. However if I set the Red Channel equation simply to "0.75*R" then my destination red channel gets completely zeroed instead of being reduced to 75% of the source red channel value (which is my aim here). Am I missing something simple here - isn't there a way to get the filter to simply reduce the destination channel value, or is this a known bug? Thanks, Martin. AP 1.8.2 for Mac.