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Leigh

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  1. 10 hours ago, R C-R said:

    If you mean for example a USB 3 or Thunderbolt connected external HDD or SSD, the speed difference should not be significant -- in fact on Macs with built-in slower HDDs (like 5400 rpm ones) & fast external HDDs or SSDs, the latter may be faster for typical file accesses.

    I think that's the issue and why the devs recommend saving locally. There are so many different types of USB drives available, all of which can be connected to the machine in different ways.

    10 hours ago, R C-R said:

    Of course, Affinity may not access files in typical ways, which I think is why editing a locally stored copy is recommended. Regardless, I think there should be a warning built into the Affinity apps about trying to edit documents not locally stored so users do not get caught out by this. 

    I will pass the suggestion to the devs 👍

  2. No worries, just wish I had better news for you.

    Our devs don't recommend using a USB drive as you're primary storage. Saving locally is always recommended because it's going to be faster to write data locally than to a USB drive, especially with larger files. Writing data at a slower rate has the potential to cause write errors leading to corrupted documents. We would suggest that you save locally and often and have a backup solution in place to copy the files to USB drive at certain intervals. I personally use the 3-2-1 backup rule. 3 copies of data, 2 copies stored locally (NAS, USB) and 1 copy backed up to the cloud.

    Hope that helps.

  3. Welcome to the forum CetoVI :)

    I'm sorry it's taken so long to get a response to your post. I'm also sorry to hear that your document is corrupted. I can see from your original post that you needed the document for the 14th of May :(

    Do you still need this file or did you have a backup? How and where did you save this file? Was it locally or to the cloud?

    I look forward to hearing from you.

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