Affinity Rat

Ok thanx

Ok so it looks like I need to authenticate another way, ….the email worked. Now able to enter setting with just a password. Just checked, Google authentication is not enabled.

Thanks Walt. Ok so it looks like I need to authentic another way, so the information given in the box is not correct, I do need to verify again. I cant remember my account settings but find it strange that even when logged in I must verify again to change settings.

Having trouble logging in, see pic I have two iPads the one I’m using to type this message and the other one where I received this message. Now I’m logged in go to account settings, now I get the same message on this iPad, hmmm. I must be missing something here, both iPads one logged in and one not logged give same message. One when attempting to log in and the other when attempting to access account settings. The message box gives the option to sign out, why would I do that?, then I would have to attempt another way to access account and wouldnt be able to access the forum. A puzzlement.

Thanx Walt, I presume the remove download option when pointing to a file in the cloud using ipad file manager app, means it will remove it everywhere it exists on all devices leaving it in the cloud. Whereas deleting it would remove it from the cloud AND all devices.

Than , yeah thats what I thought too. My old software that had objects, feathers could be applied and removed later, each object had a feather parameter which could be set to zero, just like opacity.

Title says it. 😁 I presume its not possible, w/o history.

I really dont understand the Apple Cloud, Apples documentation is minimal and havent found a good source to explain anything but the basics. My icloud has files on it that are not on one of my devices, clicking on the file in the icloud has the option remove download! I thought the remove download option was for removing icloud downloads from local devices. Icloud telling me to remove download doesnt tell me where or what device it is on. I have 2 devices, some of the folders are on both devices, but icloud doesnt seem to indicate where device folders are located. I need a reference to explain how to manage these files. Seems like Apple designed ecosystem for people that dont understand anything and so dont provide reference material. Googling this is not much use, and Apple forum doesnt respond to posts, there are so many post mine are buried below 100s of other posts. Any help appreciated.

Thanks Paul great info. I noticed many of my files are not synched, obviously if the app you create them with has synch turned on they will be synched, but files downloaded or copied from another device wont synch. Not possible to synch these files with using the file app manually to copy them to cloud.

Well discovered something my iCloud wasn't synching, Googled it went into settings, yes it was turned on but it seems as it hadnt synched and why I didnt have the option to remove downloads.

Ok, finally I get it, it is a file deletion but Apple flags it as a download removal to prevent loss of the Cloud version. I was totally unaware of the remove download option, thank you so much!

I thought the Cloud was of limited use since after uploading to Cloud I still couldnt delete the original without also loosing the Cloud version, via the synch.

I was under the impression the Icloud always synched files, so deleting the source would delete the cloud version. I have lost files before, which I presumed was the result of a synch when the original source file was no longer in its previous location, ie moved or deleted.

Once I dowloaded it, I see the 2 options you were referring to but attempting to open it from file manager got this message. So I tried opening it from the Cloud not local iPad copy.

ok I see, my mistake I was looking at the cloud version, not the local version.

If file was uploaded to the Cloud from another device, then maybe I would have the option to remove download since the file still existed on the original device.

No, I only see Download now, and Delete.

Thanx Walt I’m confused, I thought the file was initially created on the ipad, then uploaded a copy to the cloud, so deleting the ipad version is not removing a download, it is deleting a file from the ipad and the Cloud would synch and delete the cloud version.

So deleting from device (ipad) wont delete corresponding file or copy in the cloud! So its not synchronizing.

I find iPad great for creating and editing files but my iPad storage quickly gets full. Ok, now what? I have iCloud storage but it doesnt make it easy to delete files from the iPad as the synch will also delete them from the cloud. Logging out of iCloud doesnt help either, since once logged it will synch deleting files. So what are some suggestions to handle this dilemma? The Apple file manager app is hopeless, results in huge waste of effort from curtailed operations leaving. 0 byte files on my destination drive. It appears all file actions on iPad MUST use the Apple file manager to effect the transfer. It appears the best solution is not to store any Affinity files on the iPad, create edit then moved them to external storage by any means. It seems Apple file manager usually fails when transferring large numbers of files of very large files at one time. When using iPad file manager for multiple files it may be better to compress a folder and transfer a single zip file at a time.

Seems to me that the introductory material for Publisher does include a basic tutorial/info regarding approaches to creating a publication depending on desired export type and output parameters. Sure if designing a simple brochure, one can muddle through, but large documents require planning and many considerations. Easy to jump into a document, but planning is an important step in effectively getting the desired output with minimal revisions and time wasted.

Thanx Walt, a lot of learning to do on publisher. 😊

Yeah, links should make a much lighter footprint when designing, but not so convenient if you want to share the doc.

Thank you for that Blackstone😊 Just guessing here, maybe use links on all images while designing and embed images when complete. Is there an easy way to convert a document with links to embedded images?

ok, been watching a vdo entitled “Designing a Photo Book in Affinity Publisher” realized more info need My goal is to create a digital book ie not for print, that may eliminate many of the design considerations. My concern is to prevent crashes and loss of effort associated with dealing with large files and failed saves.