Gianni Becattini

By the way, I found very useful the book. I expected the typical book where you can find the most obvious things. On the contrary, it is really useful and well done!

I believe not, because I had the Optimise flag already turned on, and the article says that the bug is only if off.
Even not sure, in my opinion, they improved in some way the process, that, from time to time, sets all the disc content to "in the cloud" and then very quickly checks and update the real file status (local or clouded) accordingly. I don't know what triggers this event, maybe some incongruence they find, but until now it seems more an improvement than a problem.
It could fix  the old stuck condition "Uploading 0 byte of 34 Mbytes (or whatever)" with no progress.
I can only suppose that mi problem with AP files was connected to an iCloud error condition, that, after this sanifying process, has been fixed. Surely I confirm what I said: impossibility to open AP files, precess triggered, problem solved -- obviously I cannot say if they are really related.
Thanks for the information, I will update this post if I have news.

Update. I suspect where the fault is. These days Apple updated MacOS. The most exciting news are new screen backgrounds and new emoticons....
But probably not all the girls and the boys who work there are brainless, and there is also some more concrete innovation inside. One, even if not declared (for what I know), is related to iCloud Drive. It seems that from time to time something happens that hangs on some file synchronization. They say "in this case disable and re-enable" iCloud Drive, but nobody does it because it takes almost two or three days to resync everything.
In the new version, probably, when a problem arises, a complete scan of all the files starts automatically. All of them are marked as not present on the disk, but remain present on the disk and iCloud check them all saying that it is downloading them, but really they aren't (it is too fast).  I can only imagine that is like disabling and re-enabling, a complete resync but without the physical file transfer.
This morning I tried again and the AP file again didn't open. After ten minutes, the process I told you automatically started,  and after some time all the AP file opened again normally, without actions by me. Now it works. Just for information, a single time I got the message "The file is in use by another application". So I restarted the Mac, but again the file did't want to open. That could explain also why the copy of the file worked normally.
Don't ask me why the file could however be opened from inside the book, I don't know. But what I told you, apart from my comments, is what exactly happened.
So, now all is OK, thanks for the prompt reply.
 

Thanks, Walt,
in the future I will follow this suggestion.

Thanks to you, I appreciate your help.
By the way, with the last 2.2, Publisher has greatly improved, so I no longer regret having used it for my books instead of InDesign (that I have, however).
The most critical point, for me, a small author more than a professional, was the lack of page references, so now I have almost all I want.
Also the stability problems, if not disappeared, are no longer a continuous worry. My books are are rather big, with 8-10 chapters each and very many images; all of them are Affinity Photo files, often rather complex, no simple jpeg, for a total of more than 2,000 pages. That to say that if AP works for me ...it is a good test bench for Publisher.
Thanks again for the help I find here, that is almost fifty percent of the Affinity products value.

Thanks for your kindness. I am abroad now, tomorrow I do, thanks

Hi guys, you are right, I am a donkey... I didn't tell the things completely. I try to remedy:
The original image is in a .afphoto file. It contains only the image and the adjustment layer and is cropped (and trimmed) about at the dimension you see on page 225, the upper one (the margins are rather tight). So, in theory, it has no reason to exceed so much. The Publisher document that you see has a frame with inside the "5B10 left.afphoto" file (linked); (see attachment) So, in my opinion, the Publisher frame should "limit" to its perimeter whatever is inside the Photo file; in reality, instead, the adjustment layer (that stays in the Photo file) "overflows" out of the frame boundaries and changes the fronting page

I started the topic "Very, very disappointed". With the release of 2.2, it seems fair to me to tell my satisfaction to Serif developers. Initially I was trembling.... but until now I had just one occasional crash (consider that currently I use Publisher many hours per day, on two different Macs).
So a good stability and the cross references make me today a happy user. I hope you go on on this road.
Thanks, guys!

I started the topic "Very, very disappointed". With the release of 2.2, it seems fair to me to tell my satisfaction to Serif developers. Initially I was trembling.... but until now I had just one occasional crash (consider that currently I use Publisher many hours per day, on two different Macs).
So a good stability and the cross references make me today a happy user. I hope you go on on this road.
Thanks, guys!

I started the topic "Very, very disappointed". With the release of 2.2, it seems fair to me to tell my satisfaction to Serif developers. Initially I was trembling.... but until now I had just one occasional crash (consider that currently I use Publisher many hours per day, on two different Macs).
So a good stability and the cross references make me today a happy user. I hope you go on on this road.
Thanks, guys!

IMPORTANT! I discovered that select+right click+Cut works. So the problem is just in the key.
The point is that BACKSPACE does not works anymore, while DELETE (Fn+BACKSPACE on Mac) works.
I can survive.... just learn to use new key.

Thanks Walt, that's a good news indeed!

I confirm my last post, so my fault, sorry!
Thanks however.

Twice donkey... I didn't note the icon... I tried with the DEL key.
😇

You are right, Garry. The point is that the Google search gives Designer as first result of the search, but if you look at the web address it is really Designer, not Photo.
Sorry for losing your time and thanks
 

Solved, thanks

Auto-solved - the update is present on the Apple Store.
 
Thanks anyway

After two years using and sustaining Affinity, I see that improvements are really slow or absent.

I am going to add a warning like this to my books (they are very large and don't allow to change manually the page references).
Never buy Affinity products
I used Affinity Publisher to create this book. Besides weeks lost for continuous crashes, after two major versions I am not still able to add page references or hyperlinks as any desktop publishing software allows.
I apologize for the trouble it will bring you, it was my fault having not checked when I started using.
Do you think that I am wrong? It is not ironic, it's a real question, I don't want to write it if I am wrong.

I am going to add a warning like this to my books (they are very large and don't allow to change manually the page references).
Never buy Affinity products
I used Affinity Publisher to create this book. Besides weeks lost for continuous crashes, after two major versions I am not still able to add page references or hyperlinks as any desktop publishing software allows.
I apologize for the trouble it will bring you, it was my fault having not checked when I started using.
Do you think that I am wrong? It is not ironic, it's a real question, I don't want to write it if I am wrong.

I am going to add a warning like this to my books (they are very large and don't allow to change manually the page references).
Never buy Affinity products
I used Affinity Publisher to create this book. Besides weeks lost for continuous crashes, after two major versions I am not still able to add page references or hyperlinks as any desktop publishing software allows.
I apologize for the trouble it will bring you, it was my fault having not checked when I started using.
Do you think that I am wrong? It is not ironic, it's a real question, I don't want to write it if I am wrong.

I am going to add a warning like this to my books (they are very large and don't allow to change manually the page references).
Never buy Affinity products
I used Affinity Publisher to create this book. Besides weeks lost for continuous crashes, after two major versions I am not still able to add page references or hyperlinks as any desktop publishing software allows.
I apologize for the trouble it will bring you, it was my fault having not checked when I started using.
Do you think that I am wrong? It is not ironic, it's a real question, I don't want to write it if I am wrong.

Sorry, I did'n want to produce this important reaction.
My aim was very small: if Publisher 2 was stable, I never would ask a way to save in the previous format. 
But when you release something like that, without a proper test, it should be nice if at least you leave a door open to go back.

WARNING, DON'T USE PUBLISHER V2 if you have serious work to do. It is absolutely unreliable. I lost an entire week of hard work. The file passed from 500M to 5G and now it is no longer editable.
I was already late with my work, now I go into big troubles.
The only solution is now going back to rev. 1, comparing line by line each of 410 pages of graphics and re-converting 59 images by hand. Another week, if I am lucky.
Very, very disappointed? Believe me, the point is not the price, I would pay 1,000€ now for having not trusted Affinity.
Thanks, Serif.
 

Sorry, I did'n want to produce this important reaction.
My aim was very small: if Publisher 2 was stable, I never would ask a way to save in the previous format. 
But when you release something like that, without a proper test, it should be nice if at least you leave a door open to go back.