Richard Bledsoe

Any estimate when it might be supported? I know,I know, it has compressed ARW that's a first for Sony.🙂 Thanks!
Richard

I found an answer! I downloaded the aflaunch zip available on this forum web site and extracted it on desktop, then right clicked the file and directed it to create a shortcut. Dragged it to desktop and I can now drag and drop to open Tif files in Affinity2 straight from folders on Windows explorer. This does not mean I like having Affinity as a Microsoft app though.

This is what it boils down to me. I just cannot wrap my head around the fact that they went app or nothing. If they'd offer both app and a normal installer I would've already bought the bundle for V2.
Now I'm sticking with V1 Photo and Designer and looking for a publishing program.

Thanks Mark although I'm sure most posters/readers of this forum will be aware of the install path(s) by now. From memory there is or was not any mention of this during the actual install process. So many users who do not visit these parts will be left in the dark and no doubt possibly highly frustrated.
Anyway, V2 is what it is and it is of course entirely an individual choice whether to live with it or revert back to V1 as I have done.

A quick message to Serif, if you think you can just "wait out the storm", while keeping radio silence, that may be so, but there may be no userbase left after the storm is over.
When there are page-long threads about the same issues everyone is having and everyone is unhappy with your latest choices, I think it's high time you did something about it, or at the very least acknowledge the problem, don't you think?

That would probably work to help with the workflow problems. But it wouldn't solve the big issue I, and apparently others, have with the software going where IT wants to go on the PC instead of going where I want it to go. That is simply unacceptable for me and going by the forums I'm not the only one.

I see some comments about Affinity not being a professional software.
To those who say that, I have a question.
What makes a piece of software a professional software?
I use Affinity Suite for work and the problem I have with it is not the ability to integrate it with FastStone, DXO or any other program, but the fact that i no longer can (by defaut) set up my graphics tablet shortcuts for Affinity. I could of course set the shortcuts globally and not per app basis but that greatly affects my workflow in negative way.
So yes, going the app route is no go for me. Sure I did find the solution but that's not the point.
I, as a user, paying user for that matter,  shouldn't be looking for workarounds just to use the software the way I want to use it.

I just reinstalled Windows 11 a few days ago. As usual, I nuked the app store. I do not use apps.
Purchased without knowing I'd be sent an app. After seeing this, I decided to give it a shot anyway instead of immediately asking for a refund.
Install fails, of course. The problem was that the installer would halt because updating firewall rules wouldn't work while my Windows Defender Firewall service wasn't functioning. Why in god's name do I have to troubleshoot a firewall service to install a photo editor? Because app.
Of course the solution was to add permissions to the registry key for the BFE service. When you are changing registry key permissions, something is not right in the world. You have taken a wrong turn. So then everything appears to be running fine. But I run into another issue. If I have an .afphoto file open (not a raw) and I click the File menu, the "app" immediately crashes. That's where I am now.
The one and only reason I switched from Adobe to Affinity is that I deeply resent Adobe's abuse of my property. I do not want ridiculous spyware that reaches its tentacles into every corner of my systems and constantly phones home. It looks like Affinity will be adopting the same model that places user needs last.

Wow glad I saw this. Big disappointment with this route.
Not only do I have to buy it again but it installs as an app! No one wants apps on a PC, we want software that we can choose what to do with it on our systems.
I spend all my time deleting and shutting down the App infrastructure in Windows.
Corporations just love taking away any control the consumer has.
 
I think I'll pass.

Great for you. Windows Apps have always been a hot mess permissions-wise, so there's probably something borked for me. I also tried pointing it at C:\Users\[MyUsername]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\AffinityPhoto2.exe and get an error saying "The file cannot be accessed by the system" even though it looks like the permissions are in check. Also using Win 11.
 
So again... should've just been a regular windows program and we wouldn't have had any of this headache.

It is a big problem for a lot of comany pc. In big company often the app store is disable by policy. In that case this package is not installable.
Please make a normal installation file for alla people that has problem like this otherwise you'll loose a lot of guest that cannot install this kind of package....one of this is me
my intention was to buy the entire suite but i will move to other graphic package.
 
bye bye
 
 

OK- found, by poking around, the Reset and Repair options. Rest all three apps, repaired all 3 apps. If I try to run them from the start menu, a white line appears under the entry, then nothing happens. If I try to run them in Admin mode, I get the permissions error. Why oh why did ya'll not just use a regular Windows install? This is a freaking nightmare!

I imagine there were maybe advantages to switching to the Microsoft App Installer (.msix files).
However, for the user, the problems have increased:
There are many who have problems being able to install the packages. For example, it took me hours because the packages from Serif did not run for me. Only after downloading them directly from the Microsoft Store was I able to install them.
The next problem is the integration of the new programs in others. Now you can't find an .exe file which is accepted by other programs.

This is a stupid move by the developers. I own my PC, it is not a phone or a tablet and I want to control what goes on the PC and where it goes. I didn't spend time setting up partitions and drivers for fun. I have a particular drive for programs and that is where they go or they don't get installed - end of!
Version 2 is now uninstalled and I will never buy another Serif product until they fix this. The reason I went to Affinity suite in the first place was because Adobe ruined photoshop by their subscription/online nonsense.

Yeah running appwiz.cpl won't show you Photo 2, since it's a Windows Store app now.


Little by little by agonizingly little MS is moving functionality off Control Panel and into Settings. They're just never getting there entirely.
The C:\Program Files\WindowsApps folder is owned by TrustedInstaller and (not surprisingly) doesn't grant regular users much in the way of access:

Once in the application folder (..\SerifEuropeLtd.AffinityPhoto2_2.0.0.1640_x64__3cqzy0nppv2rt on my system) I can move around but getting there via Explorer isn't possible without modifying parent folder permissions. I used Task Manager | Details view, selected photo.exe, right-clicked and chose "Open File Location" to take a look. I could change the parent folder security but TBH it's been long enough (but not long enough, if you know what I mean) since I've messed with Windows folder rights that I'd have to research what not to do, to avoid issues. And I don't feel like doing that.  🙃  Give me Linux filesystem permissions any day...
I guess the decision to install as a Windows Store App was made for auto-update purposes (I'll be charitable and not say it was made to further get in bed with MS), but I wish it had installed into the standard location. Would've been much easier to manage.

Just bought the Suite and could not find the installation files so was unable to create shortcuts and worse unable to find a way to run the software! The only way I could launch the software was to double-click on the downloaded installation files which gave me the option to Launch from there. Total irritation and confusion.
However in the meantime after much faffing about through the Forum I discovered to my dismay that these are "App" files and do not install into the Program folder of my C drive and do not appear in my Programs & Features... How do I uninstall them?
I absolutely hate this unexplained change to installing/removing software and am not happy with the way this has been implemented, particularly as no advanced notification (as far as I could tell) was given.
I very much like what Serif is doing with Affinity and love the software but cannot stand this insane change to the standard installation procedure.
Please Serif fix this unwanted installation mess asap. and please retain some independence from the dumbing-down that Micro$oft continually applies to Windows in the so-called attempt to make it better.
I sincerely hope you listen.

Agreed.  So far, I'm unable to install the upgrades that I just purchased.  I keep getting errors which I'm guessing are due to my shutting off a lot of the spyware features of Windoze 10.
I'm hoping they are planning on releasing a good ol' EXE - if not, I'm going to want a refund.