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Yes. The files are from around a year ago, about January 2021, and I think AD have been updated since then. I’ve been looking through a few more old files and most of them open correctly. It seems like the ones that have this problem were created around the same time. Thanks! I uploaded four files with the problem, and two images to show what the designs should look like. I really appreciate your help

Hi! Thank you, and thanks for trying to help out! I apologize in advance if something isn’t clear, English isn’t my first language. The problem is the same on both desktop and iPad. Anywhere I open the files, the appearance of the design changes and they become unusable. So there isn’t any “working copy” that I can check against. This is why the problem is so serious, I would have to do a lot of the work all over again, and still be afraid that the next time I open AD it would change again. Let me show you again, with more details: This is what the design should look like. This is what it looked like last time I had it open in AD, and when I made backup copies. This is what it still looks like in Finder on a Mac, both the miniatures and the preview (pressing space, with the file selected, in Finder on a Mac) This is what the file looks like when I open it in AD for desktop, on a Mac This what the file looks like when I open it in AD on my iPad Pro I swear to god that it isn’t me who have made changes to the file and then forgotten about it, because 1) It has happened to at least three files that I’ve found so far, not just one. 2) I can see on the backup copies that they haven’t been edited since backup. 3) Finder on Mac still previews the files correctly, and the miniatures in AD on iPad looks correct until i open them. I’ve done some digging around in the file, and you’re on the right about the blend modes being part of the problem, but not all of it. Even if I don’t have a working copy of the file, I can see that some layers that obviously should be set to Multiply, has been changed to Screen. However, I’m not here to get help to fix this single file. I’m here because AD is changing some of my designs upon opening them, this and at least two other files, and that is the real problem. If I can’t trust my designs to look the same when I open them in the future, I can’t use the software at all. If I have to dig through dozens of layers, checking blend modes, opacities and other settings when I open a file, to find what makes it look different from last time I opened it, that’s just as bad. I don’t mean to sound rude, I just want to tell you what I’m afraid of here and why I’m concerned about this problem. Absolutely, no problems! Please provide me with a link and I can send you a couple of files that have been affected by this problem. Thank you so much for your help!

Hi, A few days ago I tried to open a previously saved design that I've made with Affinity Designer on iPad. Upon opening it, it looked completely different (see pictures). I thought that there might be something wrong with the copy in the iPad app, so I imported the same file from a backup copy I have, but the same thing happened. So I moved to desktop and opened my backup copy there, but the same thing happened. The design looks completely different. This is what the design should look like, and how it looks when I preview the file on Mac: This is what it looks like when I open the same file: This happens to other files as well. Here is a booklet cover I made, which I duplicated and then opened on the iPad: I'm so sad because at this point it feels as though I've lost my artwork. Please help me. If I can't trust that the designs I make looks the same next time I open them, I can't use the software to design anything.