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

3 minutes ago, ADRs said:

May i know which exe file shortcut you use for streamdeck? is it the "original" photo.exe file? because that's the only exe i could link to my steelseries engine software (already tried all the workaround), but the problem is that exe file is under the 'affinity-versionnumber' folder, so i have to link it again everytime there's an update.

thx

Hit Windows+R, type "shell:appsfolder", find the app there, right click -> create shortcut.

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

10 minutes ago, KennethL said:

This change made the application almost unusable for my daily workflow. Since the path the application is installed to is locked away by Windows, even to administrator accounts, a lot of application can't launch it externally.

E.g. Unity3D will not allow me to mark Affinity as my external image editor, which means I can no longer open images directly from Unity3D, which is how I use Affinity 99% of the time.

The Stream Deck also can't launch the application anymore. You have to find a hidden folder in windows (not the actual application path), find the app and create a shortcut, which Windows will not allow and ask to place to place it on the desktop, which you can then link to. That workaround took me a while to figure out, considering what a simple task it should've been.

I immediately found a workaround for Unity3D. Create a .bat file with the contents:

cd "C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\"
start AffinityPhoto2.exe %*

and set the bat file as your external tool. Not really ideal, though.

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

This change made the application almost unusable for my daily workflow. Since the path the application is installed to is locked away by Windows, even to administrator accounts, a lot of application can't launch it externally.

E.g. Unity3D will not allow me to mark Affinity as my external image editor, which means I can no longer open images directly from Unity3D, which is how I use Affinity 99% of the time.

The Stream Deck also can't launch the application anymore. You have to find a hidden folder in windows (not the actual application path), find the app and create a shortcut, which Windows will not allow and ask to place to place it on the desktop, which you can then link to. That workaround took me a while to figure out, considering what a simple task it should've been.