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I am also very disappointed by this announcement. I'm sure that the Serif executives will do well, and I hope the employees receive some of the financial rewards, but I am deeply pessimistic about the future of the Affinity products.

From other threads, I see that I’m not the only one confused by iCloud file management between the iPad and desktop Affinity apps. I started with Affinity 1, and upgraded to 2 when it came out. I’m a casual user (hobbyist), so I’ve been muddling through the few times I needed to copy files between versions, but I would like to clean things up. There are two folders in iCloud, both named “Affinity Designer”. One was created by version 1, the other by version 2, but they both show the same display name (apparently iCloud knows which is which). I have a few files in each. I’ve been able to open files from both folders in the version 2 apps, and also from my desktop version, but it’s very confusing to try and keep track of where the latest versions are stored. It sounds like the recommendation from other users is to ignore the app-created folders, and just manually create my own project folders in iCloud for storing Affinity files. Is that correct? Can I just move all the existing files out of the app folders, or will that confuse Affinity? Maybe I should open each one from the app and specifically save it into the new location? Thanks in advance!

The problem has returned - this time, I exported a document palette I had created, and then when I tried to import it into a different document, Designer hung up. I tried rebooting, which seemed to fix things the first time, but the same problem occurred after the reboot. I have not tried resetting the app yet, but I will try that next. But I have noticed that in general Affinity Designer is a bit unstable. It usually crashes on me once a day at least, often after closing a document or trying to close the app. I haven't been too concerned, because I haven't lost any work yet, and I assume that you will be releasing an update soon that might address some bugs. Yes?

Sorry, I thought I had posted an update. The problem corrected itself after I rebooted the computer, so all is well. Thank you for the response - I'll try the reset if I run into the issue again.

I am running Affinity 1.10.5 on a Mac Studio with an M1 Max and Ventura 13.0. When I select Import Palette -> As Document Palette, the application immediately hangs while displaying the file dialog. This does not seem to happen when selecting Application Palette or System Palette, although I have not finished the import because I prefer to import the palette as a Document palette. This also does not happen on my Intel MacBook, which is also running Ventura 13.0. Any suggestions?