Armdy

It's set to Local

It's just regular Windows 10 on a home machine with a local hard drive. I haven't set up any folder redirects knowingly, but I do some software development, so I'm sure I have a few extra environment variables and stuff like that. Nothing crazy though.

This directory existed. It just contained no license file, and the software seemed unable to write to it. According to the folder permissions, my user account has permission to write to that folder. This directory exists, and it had an Affinity directory already. It may have only appeared the first time I ran the program in Administrator mode. Not sure. It takes me to "C:\ProgramData".

@Mark Ingram I hadn't heard of that, but I checked for it in the settings and it is not enabled.

Hi, I found a fix which I think is a bit of a hack. So for some reason Affinity is looking in "C:\Users\Andy\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Designer\1.0\ProgramData", and it fails to write the license file. When I run it in admin mode, it looks in "C:\ProgramData\Affinity\Designer\1.0" and succeeds in writing the license file. But this isn't good enough, because the next time I start it as a normal user it looks for the license file in the wrong place again and refuses to run. I realised that if I manually copy the "license.xml" file written in the ProgramData path over to the AppData path, it will find what it's looking for and work. So there is still a nasty bug of some kind, but this hack seems to work for now. Thanks for your help.

I just bought a license for Affinity Designer on Windows 10, and am experiencing the Windows equivalent of the error described here: I tried following the advice in the thread, as well as the advice in the FAQ: Although running at administrator gets me past the license problem, Affinity Designer can then only run in administrator mode. Running it normally will bring me back to this license error. I am not happy running the program permanently in administrator mode, and it definitely shouldn't be necessary. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I just bought Affinity Designer and I have exactly the same problem. It works if I launch as an administrator, but then shows this screen again when I launch normally, and fails with the same error. I tried looking at the folder permissions and toggling the read-only box. Didn't help. I also don't understand why I should have to do that unless something has already gone wrong. I uninstalled it, deleted the relevant folders, installed and then tried again. Exactly the same thing happened. Anyone know what is going on?