Dada Shiilabhadrananda

Happy news. By accident, I could open the Affinity software and it didn't hang for the first time. This was after I updated my Mac operating system to Big Sur. So I hope the problem has now been resolved. Thank you for your patience and replies.

Unfortunately I couldn't solve the Calibre app issue in the end. I wanted to use the Affinity Publisher software to learn how to publish my ebook.

Thank you all for your replies. It is of course quite simple to transfer the Affinity Publisher App to my Applications folder once I have downloaded it. But as I have mentioned in numerous other posts in this thread, whatever methods I try, the result is always the same--the Affinity Publisher always hangs when I try to open it. So I have to Force-Quit the program every time.

Thanks everyone for trying to help. Actually I have follow these steps before. But it still doesn't prevent the app from hanging when I try to open it. Based on the above conversations, I moved to the trash the original download and again repeated the process just to see if it might work on the second try. But unfortunately the hanging problem still persists.

These are the contents of the Affinity Publisher 1.9.3 software which I purchased. How do I proceed from here? Which of the contents do I drag into my Applications folder?

Yes it was a DMG file. So shall I first move to the Trash the existing Affinity app from my Applications folder and try to open and then drag the DMG into my Applications folder?

I had a similar issue with the Calibre app about two months ago. But not others. I purchased the app from the Affinity Store.

Thank you for the suggestion. But unfortunately both times I tried and it still doesn't solve the problem.

I purchased and downloaded the Affinity Publisher app on my MacBook Pro using OS Catalina 10.15.7 version on May 4, 2021. But I cannot open the application. I transferred the Affinity software to my Applications Folder. I have my product key. When I click to open the Affinity Publisher app it always hangs. I wait for at least 15 minutes each time to see if it will open. But finally I have to Force-Quit the program. I tried on about 8 different occasions. It has not opened since I purchased it.