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20 hours ago, Mark Ingram said:

Hi all. Thanks for your patience over the weekend when our offices were closed.

We've had a meeting this morning and decided to ALSO offer MSI installers to those people who would like them. I can't tell you when this will happen, as there is engineering work that will be required to allow this to happen, but we hope it won't be long.

Thanks for your feedback!

Mark,

 

That's great news.

Thanks for the update.

Chris

 

[Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program]

OK, found a way that actually works.

 

Open the msix installer file with something like 7Zip

Extract the contents to a different folder (I used d:\AP2 on my PC)

Run photo.exe - you'll need to reregister it with your Affinity ID

I can link the photo.exe file in DXO PL and the export works as it should.

Chris

 

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Well, despite some sage advice from other people l still can't get it to work with DXO Photolab on my Windows 11 system. I even took steps to take ownership/control of the C:\Program Files\WindowsApps folder and sub folders and can now browse to the Photo.exe file in the PL export dialogue box- still doesn't work.

I've wasted too much time trying to get a workaround; I'm not wasting any more. I'll give it ONE week to see what Serif come up with. I suspect the answer will be nothing as Serif seem very swift to place the responsibility for a fix on other organisations. If no official fix I'll get my refund and go back to Photoshop and their constant payment system; a route l'd prefer not to go down. It's why l switched to Affinity a few years back.

 

Thank you to everyone who contributed in this thread.

 

Chris

 

[Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program]

Hi David,

No, that doesn't work as PL insists on a full path to the .exe file. The .bat file you suggested works but you still can't link it successfully in PL - unless I'm missing something obvious.

I'm using Windows 11 and PL 6: the C:\Program Files\WindowsApps folder - where the 'real' photo.exe resides is locked down - you can't even browse to it successfully - only way l could find it was via Task Manager and open the file location for the Affinity Photo process (Affinity has to be running to do this).

Chris

 

[Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program]

Seems this has been acknowledged as a problem by Serif - this was in another thread in this forum - watch this space l guess....

 

Chris

 

 

 

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5 minutes ago, yaywalter said:

It won't let you just put affinityphoto2.exe as the path?

No, this is the dialog box in PL for exporting to an app - you have to browse to get to the app - so for V1 of Affinity l would just go to the Program Files/Affinity folder and select the .exe

 

Chris

 

 

 

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44 minutes ago, yaywalter said:

I found a solution... forget about specifying any paths, just running "affinityphoto2.exe" works.

Still rather annoying and disappointing that they've decided to go about it this way.

  

You can email affinityreturns@serif.com with your name and order number to initiate a refund if you'd like.

That doesn't work for DXO - you have to specify a path to the .exe. I don't want to use Affinity's raw developer because DXO has much better noise reduction and lens correction.

This is so frustrating - I intend to report this as a bug: unless someone already has? I don't really want to go down the refund path as l really do like Affinity Photo and have no desire to return to Adobe's subscription system.

Chris

 

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If l browse to C:\Users\[MyUsername]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps and double click AffinityPhoto2.exe then AP starts OK. However if l browse to that file via DXO Photolab l get the "The file cannot be accessed by the system" error. Same problem runing PL as administrator. This, as yaywalter suggests, sounds like a permissions problem even though permissions on the file show as my user id and Adminstrators (which my id is) have full control.

Chris

 

[Extremely disappointed that this installs as an "App" and not regular software program]

Same problem with DXO Photolab - can no longer export a developed raw file directly to Affinity. Big step backward for me. If there is no workaround for this I'll probably get the refund within the 14 day window and find something else to use.

 

Chris