christine westhead

Thanks, Walt. The only cloud service I use is dropbox, and only to transfer stuff. However, I did manage to copy and paste my pages to a new file and call it 'Test'. (but not after I'd lost a lot of work, unfortunately.) That worked, but then I found I could not delete my original file. The message said the file was open in Designer, which was definitely not the case. I still got the error message, even after I closed Designer down. There was no instance of Designer open anywhere on my computer, but this got me thinking. I right clicked on my original file and opened it in Designer 1. It opened, I made a change and saved the change. Then I tried to delete my orignal file ( so I can rename my 'test' file, but it wasn't having that! I received another error mesage saying the file was still open. I went back into Designer 2, to see if I could open it from there, but it wasn't in the recent files. So, slightly mystified, I went back to windows explorer, to see that I had deleted it after all. (well, it was gone, anyway, and that was all I was worried about.). So, perhaps something is going awry when files automatically transfer from Designer 1 to Designer 2 in the install. I just nipped into Designer 2, opened a new document, dragged in a picture and saved it, so at least now I can save new files, which for some reason I couldn't do before. This is in no way a fix, but it is certainly a work around for the time being. I would like to thank you for answering my call for help.

Hi I cannot save any document,or alter an existing document. I've tried all the fixes recommended - i.e. copying page by page into a new document, but it won't save anything at all. I'm really stuck. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Hi, It is possible in Affinity Designer. Place the image, use the edit image button on the tool bar. Find the image in the layers panel and click the little triangle to open all the parts. Click on one of the parts, click control A to select them all and group them again. That should do it.