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@PaulEC @walt.farrell I haven't seen PagePlus and used Craft Artist previously. The display of pages and elements was brilliant for scrapbooking. However the Affinity Assets panel is disappointing to say the least. I've tried the dark screen but black word art does not show up clearly enough. I've tried the light grey screen but can't see white elements. It's too small. Perhaps there's a way of detaching it and enlarging it that I haven't found yet. It's all experimentation at the minute and a group of us scrapbookers trying to learn from each other. My Laptop was given to me, it's a gaming machine so I'm assuming there's plenty of memory (it's an MSi) (no idea what model ) - thanks for your initial reply.

@Callum every time I convert a kit into an Asset I export it (so it's a back-up). It's come to the stage that every time I import a kit or delete one I get the "not responding" screen. Sometimes it just clears in a minute and I can continue but sometimes I have to shut down. I deleted the program yesterday then re-installed it. At the moment I'm just keeping about 5 kits in the Assets Panel. I've just checked the size of one of the kits (for reference) and it's around 146,500kb. There are a number of scrapbookers now starting to move to Affinity and we've started a new facebook group so that we can learn from each other, pass on tutorials we've found etc. It would appear that existing facebook groups haven't been interested in using the Affinity products for scrapbooking so we're going it alone (Thanks for your initial reply).

I've recently started using Affinity Photo and Designer (mainly Photo) in place of Craft Artist. I found out how to load my scrapbooking kits into the Assets panel - with subcategories for different parts of the kit. I had around 16 kits loaded last week but I started to get a while line across the top of the screen and "not responding". After shutting down the program a number of times I eventually lost everything from the Assets panel. Luckily I had exported the kits as Assets files and there's only one kit I need to re-make into as Asset. I tried to reinstall the program and used the FIX option. However I still keep getting the "not responding" message even though I now have only 3 kits in the Assets panel. Can you tell me if there is an maximum for contents of the assets panel please?