seeknowbrown

FYI: I have all three Affinity apps, all of which were purchased directly from Affinity, and not through the App Store. Yet, I too have been having enormous wait times when launching Photo. I have begun also to suspect Big Sur may be at least partially responsible, as I feel some slowness in other activities on the iMac since upgrading. I will try the method mentioned above (duping the app) to see how it affects the launch time. In the meantime, thanks all for this discussion.

Thanks, Old Bruce, but I don't think it's on Flickr's end. I've loaded a few thousand photos and art images onto my Flickr account for at least 10 years, many of which would have been retitled files in the manner I described. I've never once had this occur. Only when I changed to the Affinity apps did this problem begin.

Thanks. I had no idea.

No. I purchased the three Affinity apps this past October, and my version 1.8.3. of Photo is said to be the latest version.

Big problem: I'm an art director, graphic artist, illustrator. I work in layered images with Affinity Photo, having ended my many years using Photoshop. I'm enjoying the new Affinity software, but I am experiencing what seems to be a major flaw with Affinity Photo. 1: If I begin a new project by opening an existing file (let's say, "Blue_10.afphoto"), I often do a "Save As", and in doing so I rename the file (let's say, renamed as "Green_20.afphoto") because the work I am about to do is to be a completely new version based on that original. 2: After completing my new multi-layered image, and saving the final (still as "Green_20.afphoto"), 3: I then save a flattened version of the file, using the same name but with the addition of "flt" (i.e., the flattened file is now called "Green_20_flt.afphoto". 4: Subsequently, and still in Affinity Photo, I export that flattened file as a jpeg, and now the jpeg file exists as "Green_20_flt.jpg". I now have the three files (two .afphoto files and one .jpg file) on my Mac, and all seems fine, each with the correct name and file type. 5: I noticed the following problem when I uploaded jpeg files to my online Flickr account. The files upload, but the titles are often totally wrong (in this example, possibly the name of the old original defunct file "Blue_10.afphoto". The title is not only totally incorrect, but I now have to double-check each and every image exported from Photo before sending, uploading or delivering to avoid major mistakes or embarrassment if not caught and corrected. Please tell me there's a fix for this. I have never had such a problem before. Thanks, anyone.