Sukavi

Well at least it can kind of be avoided. I assume it has nothing to do with my memory size? I guess you are testing it on your 16gb Macbook Pro.

ok. so...its the Layer groups. I wonder why that wasnt happening before? Is there something to turn off that prevents that auto filling? I noticed that behavior when i started using the App. It is handy, but sometimes it is annoying that selecting a swatch will change the stroke or fill. I was working with a much larger file and experienced no problems before. Maybe its just a coincidence. I didn't think those groups were complex. I appreciate you sticking with this problem and helping me figure out what is going on.

So...is there something I can do to help?

i am using os 14.4.1 i am waiting for someone to reach out to me. this is puzzling.

I am seeing this error in the console. error 18:36:19.182913+0900 Affinity Designer 2 Affinity Store Unable to open mach-O at path: <private> Error:2 fault 18:36:19.196300+0900 Affinity Designer 2 Affinity Store FAULT: <private> determined it was necessary to configure <private> to support remote view vibrancy error 18:36:19.575011+0900 mdworker_shared All kCFPreferencesCurrentUser domains in this process will be volatile, because homeDirPath starts with /var/empty

my hackintosh (with 24 gigs of memory and 8gig for GPU) is currently running mojave because i am using photoshop cs6. I cant use affinity apps on Mojave apparently. so i have been using my M2 Macbook air.it only has 8gigs of memory. i worked on larger files without any issues all week. I know I keep harping on it, but as soon as I updated, I had the issue.

Interesting. It seems that if the first thing I do is select a swatch it hangs. but if i fiddle with other thihngs in the app first it and THEN tough the swatches its ok. very bizzare. Screen Recording 2024-04-10 at 18.15.31.mov

So i turned off the HArdware acceleration..and same issue. I also deactivated a font I installed the other day. But not sure why that would be an issue as I used that font and things have been working. The only thing that changed was I clicked that damn update button. Here is a screen shot of my settings (before I turned off Hardware accel) Also, yes they arent crashing, they are hanging for infinity (well for an abnormally long time)

ok. so i though i would open up a Designer file. and that went tits up too. hmmm. This is a big problem now. I need to get work done and suddenly things are broken. I dont know what that update did but after that everything started having issues. How exactly can i figure this out? is there a way to do a clean install of the app? i dont want to but..what are the options?

Well, thank you for the check. I've been working with that file for a couple of months. In the last couple of weeks, haven't changed any fonts, etc. Hmmm. i will see what happens with font changes. The issue happens regardless of what layer I am on.

I am still having this problem. I cant get any of my work done now.

It was happening with Default and custom swatches.

I rolled back to yesterdays version of the file and it seems to work. i feel like having that open while updating did something. its strange. I can provide the file privately for someone to check, yes. I dont have or use Dropbox. If i can upload without an account. I can also provide a link to download it. Please let me know.

So I opened the same file and kept having the same issue any time i chose a color swatch in Affinity Photo v2. I then rolled back to using version 2.4.1 of Affinity Photo. I am still having that issue. This wasnt happening all day while using the app. After I updated to 2.4.2 i got that lock up when choosing a swatch. Now I see its just on this one file. Is it because that was opened in 2.4.1 and then I updated the app, and opened it again in 2.4.2? I am confused why this file seems to be currupted now.

Did a restart of the computer. Had the same problem. I guess I will use Time Machine to roll back to the previous version so I can keep working until this issue is fixed.

I am using Mac OS 14.4.1 on a Macbook Air M2. I just updated Photo V2 to the newest..and selected one of my swatches, and got the beachball. It's been five minutes, and Affinity hasn't responded, and Force quit. Reopened Photo V2 and the same file. Chose the same swatch library and a different swatch..locked up again. Havent had any issues before updating. Seems to be a problem now.

calm down and wait. no reason to get your cackles up just yet.

Gotcha. I have several versions of cards to export in each file. saved as layers. i just thought i could use it as a quick way to export the 12 cards. saves me from going to the menu to hit export 12 times and using the save dialog 12 times.

So i guess my next question is, is there a setting or something that when using the Export persona that it ignores things outside of the artboard etc? or do i need to rasterize and trim everything before doing the Export persona? I often have things hanging outside the artboard for several reasons.

Thank you for the help both of you. So as I was taking a screenshot to show you the size, I realized what I needed to do was rasterize and trim as there were elements outside of the document's size. thats what was increasing the size. now i see the issue. I rasterized and trimmed and now when i use the export persona it outputs to the correct size.

sorry about there. here is the end result of what is being exported when usuing the export persona.

ok..here I am again. I apolgoze for that. I have been struggling with this for a couple weeks now. I cant seem to figure out the solution. Using AP, I have a 300dpi file that is 825x825 px. I exported it from the file menu, and everything is ok. I use the Export persona, and I enter a world of frustration. All the layers are now exported at LARGER sizes. still 300 DPI but at 2577 × 1916 pixels? I have the 1x thing on the slices set so what am I doing wrong?

This helped me figure out why cropping wasnt destructive. thank you. Seems like it could be a toggle in the conext menu when cropping is selected maybe.

It would be helpful. I didnt realize it was more of a masking tool in Designer. I was using both and I guess I mixed them up.

i guess i will try to send it over. Thank you for that tip.❤️