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Thanks for your reply, @thomaso! I’ll comment on that in detail: The size of the icons’ artboards remains unchanged. The gp-icons-v3 gets updated quite a lot (also in the future), but that’s only for adding new icons or maybe changing some design features. Sizes are set and won’t be changed. I think it only looks that way because the preview image’s resolution before updating is so low that it looks like it has changed. But they really are all 256x256. Dunno why it doesn’t recognize the file type correctly. Never even opened the file in Publisher or Photo before. So it’s a „straight“ Designer file. Yes, all our work is on a network volume (which syncs to dropbox, but that shouldn’t be relevant here). I hope Affinity can handle network volumes properly. Otherwise, we are in trouble. I just replaced the source (of all instances) with the same file, and still, the layer effects are gone afterwards. Guess I’ll have to work around that issue, as I gotta finish that file soon. I’ll just duplicate the black icons and color them white in the icons file. Again, thanks for your help! P.S.: Just tested with a duplicate of both files saved locally. Still, the icons get black after updating.

Any ideas? It’s quite a problem for me as I have to give out this as a template file to the client soon, and can’t find a solution. 😐

Sure. Just filmed it. The screen recording file got a bit big, so please see this dropbox link here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jnwwoj0yshd3umx/Layer Effect gone.mov?dl=0 It might be interesting to know that this occurs after re-opening the file.

Hi Affinity community, In my publisher file, I have multiple placed items from a source Affinity Designer file. I use the layer effect to colour them white. After every time I update the source file (e.g. for adding a new icon), the layer effect is gone. That’s pretty annoying, as we’re talking about 50+ occurences in the file. I tried to avoid the problem by grouping each icon in its own group (to apply the effect on the group), but that doesn’t work either, because of the group disappearing (probably another bug) the moment it is created. That has probably sth to do with the icon sitting in a box with applied restraints, but is most likely another topic in its own. Any help would be very much appreciated.

Update: It seems that loading goes way faster (approx. half the time) as soon as I end all Adobe apps (including Creative Cloud app) which is rather just a hint because as a workaround it doesn’t really work for me, as I use them in tandem all the time.

Hi! I am on a Mac, currently on OS X 10.14.6 and recently updated all Affinity apps to 1.9. I have two project files which are fairly big with quite a few placed pixel sources in it. One of the files is roughly 600MB big, the other one only 90MB. But with both, I have the problem that for opening the files, Affinity takes next to half an hour. I experienced this with files on a SMB network server and local files as well. Once they are loaded, they work fine (except from copying the contents – then the beach ball shows up for 20mins+ and then the app crashes). BTW, this shouldn’t be a pure performance issues, as I had this problem on two brand new i9 iMacs with 40GB / 64GB of RAM and big SSDs. I am relatively sure that is not enough information for anyone to look into this, so feel free to ask me any questions and I’ll be happy to answer them! Only I can’t upload the files, because they’re from a classified project. Thanks in advance! Bene