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Thanks for the update @Dan C. So, long story short, you're saying this is a google drive issue. I'll forward this to the Google Drive customer service team (who told me "this is an affinity designer issue") and see what they say! Thanks, d

More observations: if I use ‘Save a Copy’ to save an .afdesign to google drive, the file gets created, but then when I go “open from cloud” the file is grayed out, although the thumbnail appears correctly (see image). if I use the Files app to copy an .afdesign file to google drive, and try to open it from within Affinity using “open from cloud”, again, it’s grayed out but the thumbnail appears correctly if I use the Files app to open that file, it opens correctly in Affinity Designer, and then saves changes correctly back to google drive. I’m using this as a workaround for the minute. This feels very unreliable, not sure I would trust this for a big project to be honest.

@Dan C Ok, I just uninstalled both Drive and Affinity Designer, updated to the latest iOS (14.4), reinstalled drive, then reinstalled Affinity. I also from the Drive app went to Settings and turned off Privacy Screen, to see if that helped. None of it made a difference at all (apart from deleting my custom swatches and brushes, luckily I backed up my work before deleting Affinity). I just tested it throughly (and suggest you do the same!) Google Drive does seem to work correctly (ie it's not grayed out, see first screenshot) when you use the following routes: Document Menu -> Export (although weirdly when you press 'OK' it doesn't do anything, you have to press 'Share' and save to files Document Menu -> Save A Copy Google Drive export does NOT seem to work correctly (ie it's grayed out, see second screenshot) when you use any of the following methods: Export Persona -> Slices Menu -> Choose Export Folder Export Persona -> Slices Menu -> Export specific slice Export Persona -> Slices Menu -> Export All This is pretty weird inconsistent behaviour, and I suspect the users who succeeded in exporting may have used the first methods, and those who couldn't get it working were using the second group. As it stands, nothing in the Export Persona works properly with Google Drive, on my iPad Pro at least, which definitely seems like a bug to me! Can someone else run through these tests and let us know if it works? Could really use a fix for this! Thanks

thanks @Dan C yes, may be a local setting/issue, but as you can see from reading the thread, @Montecristo @Lostgraphics and @rodrigolimatattoo are also having exactly the same issue, plus presumably many other users who haven't reported it. So might be worth looking in to. I've tried changing all the Drive settings I could find but it didn't seem to help - would be great to know what settings/versions people have used successfully! I already tried reinstalling Drive, that didn't help - will try reinstalling Affinity Designer as well. I've been trying PNG via export, will try other formats. Saving to local storage works correctly Other apps (Files, Procreate, etc) seem to be able to access Drive just fine. Will test further and let you know

This is exactly what I'm trying to do on mine, but google drive is grayed out. Going back up the thread, seems like it worked for a few people but not everyone. What version of iOS are you using? Did you do anything special with the authentication settings on gdrive? I would like to get this working and so far haven't heard anything from official support...

Same - trying to export to google drive on current version. Doesn't work, it's grayed out! Google support told me this is an Affinity problem, and since you're seeing the same thing on Dropbox that seems like it is the case. Please fix this!

I'm having a similar issue, but with Export. The option to export to google drive is grayed out. I contacted google drive support and they told me So this is an affinity problem. Other apps work fine. Any chance of an update? This complicates my workflow significantly.

I'm having similar problems - when I choose export, Google Drive is grayed out, although other apps can save to it. I contacted google support and they told me Any chance of a fix? Other apps work fine so I think this is an Affinity problem!