Gianni Becattini

I normally open them from the book panel. I made other tests, also deleting all the C-Rs... but no change, it takes always the same point.

I tried also with the other C-Rs. Whatever I do, (also with the other C-Rs) I get only and always page 500-Series/page 12 and not what it should. So, for what I see, it is that not only I lost the links, but it seems impossible to recreate them. No problem uploading all you want...

In (1) you can see the current situation. On the left you see the book and in the page there is something like a hand-crafted TOC. On the left, you can see the C-R list. Until yesterday, they were all OK. Now the ? says that they cannot be found. I already noted that the Name is often wrong, but the page number is however OK. In (2) you see the target page (the paragraph "The 300-Series" in Main Section Title style: In (4) I open the C-R in Edit In (5) I deleted the C-R and try to build a new one, like it was before. Surprise! The new C-R says "Page 12" instead of "Page 96", as it was expected, and also the C-R name is wrong (both are from another chapter, that in addition is currently closed). Or I made another mistake inside my mistake, or it is another bug inside a bug, I believe... (not ironic, really asking). I add another post following this....

Thank for replying, this point is very important for me, because I am fearing that also the iMac could fail... I am abroad for work, when back I check everything and come back. Thanks again

I have two rather complex books that systematically crash when exporting on MacBook Pro M2, 16G RAM) and systematically succeed when exporting on i9iMac i9, 64G RAM; same operating system, up-to-date, no other big difference in configuration or installed programs. Is possible to do something?

My APub book often lose the cross-references, and I am forced to rebuild them. Just another bug or may I be wrong in something?

Thanks, but having many different pages with many text layers it would be unpractical to add a layer only for this. Perhaps I could have relied more on master pages, but, on the contrary, today I am removing them, which created more problems to me than solved (probably because I misused them, but not only, I believe). Thanks however.

Always very kind as always, Walt, and thank for the answer. So APub, since now!

One of the most annoying features of AP is the color used to enhance the found text in a search (or in preflight), that results about invisible. Is it possible to change it to a light color, e.g., a nice well-visible yellow? Thanks

Yesterday was terrible for me and for more than 40 times I had to kill the stuck Affinity Publisher (mainly when I synced settings or cross references across a book). But I strongly believe that this time AP is only partially guilty, or completely innocent. The Public Danger N.1 is, in this case iCloud Drive. First: it made a sync error that I am not able to explain. I closed my work at office, switched my home computer on, waited to be sure that the sync was completed and noted some strange behaviour in the file dates/times. I checked tho other computer, noting that it had not finished the sync. I waited, and I could see the new files to be synced to the old date. 6 work hours lost. I am sure I made no mistakes (no save) but it happened. However, I think it is only a sporadic event, and this is not my caveat here. Second: I could understand that, when you have less free space on your HD (120G in my case), iCloud starts to "optimise" a lot of files, removing them from the disk and leaving them in the cloud. It should do that with files that are not accessed since long time, but it is not so (at least in Sonoma). So AP tries to download a file that it needs and waits... if the files are many and large, you think it is stuck and you kill it. Maybe that all is working perfectly, then iCloud changes the situation under its feet, and, a little later, what before was going well is stuck now. I could prove it in almost two cases. You can inhibit this behaviour switching off the iCloud Drive optimisation, but in this way you loose the possibility to remove the download for the folders that you want to keep only on iCloud. I appreciated very much the new suggestive animated backgrounds... and also the new merry emoticons in the latest version of MacOS.... but from time to time they should also try to fix the old pitfalls of a service that you, in addition, pay each month for, and which always used to generate troubles since many years. All that to warn other unlucky users or to be warned if my conclusions were wrong.

It works!

Stop! I understood! TTHANKS

Thanks Mike, but for me it is not so. The Delete command just deletes ONE page and the shortcuts don't change even if master page selected (see picture). What am I doing wrong?

Wonderful! But I have not the Delete Masters function

I am not able to select more master pages but just one

Thanks for your reply. I have documents with few pages that no longer use master pages and hundredth of master pages, with styles inside. I would clean-up but I understand it is not easy. 10 documents x 100 master pages = days to work...

After detached, is it possible to delete all the master pages or it is necessary to delete each of them one by one? Thanks

@MikeTO I believe I realised that you also came in our "zona fessi", producing very good books for free...😁. It is difficult to translate "zona fessi" in English. Google translates it "Idiot zone", but this term is too strong and does not give the idea. Beside the fact that the same is applicable to me as well, I am only joking and don't want to be disrespectful. On the contrary, I greatly appreciate your work.

Sorry, I get lost in your discussion. I a short, was my mistake having deleted the Base style through "Delete unused styles"? I don't remember (but cannot exclude) if I willingly deleted it. Can I now repair this condition? However, I can confirm that the "Update styles" button fixes the situation; perhaps is only a workaround, ...but it works!

@Mark Daniel I already tried to change to 0 the left indent (instead of "no change") but in my case the behavior did not change. P.S. Thanks for your appreciation. The book is completely free and is downloadable from http://www.k100.biz/parade.htm, if you like to see it. This is only a hobby for me, but now I am working on a book that is going to be printed. So, I had to learn a lot about graphics, to prepare a professional document. That is the reason why I am so much annoying this forum. Thanks to all you, friends, may be that I eventually succeed.... 😁

Here is the document as requested. I add also the chapter where the TOC is (I just removed two pages from it). I have no problems loading the whole book if you want. Some additional notes: recently, I used the command "delete unused styles" but, for what I can remember, I always used to have problems with TOCs since long time ago (also with the previous versions) before pasting in the test page, I cleared the character styles from the two styles. You can see them uncleared in the chapter document. Tell me if you need other tests, thanks. HP E00 00 Introduction.afpub before update.afpub

Here are. I hope I understood correctly. before update.afpub after update.afpub after update and button.afpub

Sorry, I was not clear. The problem is more general: I have a TOC style, e.g., with no indents, and the TOC text. The TOC text does not reflect the style settings. In this case, the style says "0 indent" and the TOC text is indented. You can change the style as you want, sometimes the TOC text is updated, other times it doesn't. However, the magic button fixes the situation that, IMHO, should be automatic. However, when you know that, it is not a big problem, but to discover that button was not easy for me.

I try again, forgive me if I did not understand.... The cursor is on the "Voltmeter" word, after "Vo".

Thank you!