SarahB

No, Mac.

For what it's worth, all my assets have disappeared again. I don't use them often and only noticed today, I don't have time to trawl through my back up files to determine when it happened.

For what it's worth, my assets have disappeared again. I don't use them often and only noticed today, I have no idea when they disappeared. I'll have to trawl through back ups again to reinstate them.

Unfortunately, having the line break is what causes the problem with the row height! It seems my options are to rely on Publisher to determine the text wrapping, in which case I have the right row height, but the column is too wide, or to insert a line break, in which case the column width is fine but the row height expands to a silly height. I'll work on another option tomorrow. Thanks for your help, as always, Walt!

I thought the workaround might be to have three separate columns for each of the lines of text I need in column headings (category, year, £) and setting each column width to replicate the paragraph spacing (one of the reported bugs you linked to suggests that the problem only existed where line/paragraph breaks are used). However, I can't get the Education and Employability column any narrower than this, without it reverting to a single line of text, even though there is no cell padding applied left & right. Do you know of a way to force the text to remain wrapped?

Yes, maybe. I had to go back several months to find a suitable assets file as I wasn't using assets for the jobs I'd been working on in the meantime. I have no idea when I'd updated the Affinity software though.

Just to note that this bug is still in version 2.6.2

Thanks @walt.farrell, I obviously used the wrong combination of search terms as I didn't find anything! It looks like this has been reported since 2021, with nothing done to fix it, so I guess a workaround is the only option.

I had that this morning! I saved the file (local drive) with a different name and to a different (local) location and that worked, until I tried to save again. I quit Publisher, started again and it was all fine.

This has been happening for a while. This is the solution from @markw that worked for me. I had updated my OS, but not anything to do with Affinity. Other people have reported Assets disappearing, we haven't all done something to make that happen.

In an attempt to make the data fit into a table in the (horrible) way the client wants, I am trying to rotate my table column headers by 270°. With a small amount of padding, the row needs to be 30mm high to fit the text, but no matter how I try to enter the text, it defaults to 55.5mm, with an enormous amount of unnecessary white space. I've tried the following; Using the existing row, rotating the existing text. Row defaults to 55.5mm and cannot be reduced, despite the obvious unnecessary extra space. Deleted the existing text and copied/pasted from source document, then rotated. Deleted the existing text, copied/pasted from source document, with cell orientation already set to vertical. Deleted the existing text, retyped, then rotated. Deleted the existing text, retyped with cell orientation already set to vertical. Inserted new row and tried copying/pasting, typing from scratch both with cell orientation already set or rotating after data entry. Nothing works and there is no obvious reason for the change in row height. Examples below – 'Education and' fits in a 30mm row. Adding 'Employ' to the line below shifts the row height to 55.5mm. Why? OK – no examples because, in order to take screenshots for the examples, I switched the rotation of the row again and the row height is now 1437.2mm. It's obviously a complete mess and I will just have to come up with a workaround. Edit – just tried rotating the text in each cell individually, the default is 49mm until the last cell (with the least amount of text) which made the row height 3339.7mm 🙄

I realise that this is probably too late now (I turned off notifications because most replies were irrelevant to the problem), but I could only find assets in my backups and reimport them.

Yes, I've just turned off notifications for this thread as it is now just an argument about MSIX/MSIExe, despite the OP saying that he had installed the MSIExe version and the other two of us who lost Assets are using Macs!

@markw This is incredibly helpful, thank you! I had to go back to a backup from November to get (some) assets to repopulate, choosing the assets.propcol files from earlier in March still meant my Assets in Publisher were blank, even though they were 1MB in size. So my assets are not completely up to date, but it's better than nothing. The latest (empty) assets.propcol file was created on Friday afternoon, before I upgraded my OS, so it's nothing to do with that.

I finished work on my laptop yesterday, transferred the document by USB to my desktop. This morning I've opened the document on the desktop and hey presto!, all the images are rendering just fine, with the Links folder exactly the same as it was yesterday.