Sunset

The original file, Sunset at Formby, was 6.2 mb (reasonable for the number of brush strokes it contained).

New Doc 3 is 12k

Discovered the slightly different way that Mac does the Ctrl Open. Run-through same procedure as before - new doc, Save As, Open - can find the new doc and appears to open it, but still have a black workspace.

No. Create New Doc 1 - ok Save As to AD WIP - ok Close New Doc 1 in AD - ok File - Open - locate New Doc 1 in AD - ok Open the file - blank black screen in AD

Correct! File - Open - select file - nothing happens File - Open Recent - select file - opens

I created a new file and Save As to the subfolder, no error message, so I checked and it is in the subfolder. This is what it wouldn't do yesterday. Screen shot attached.

Checked - I can make changes to the documents in the subfolder that I open through Finder. I've found :Console" so I'll try that now.

Worse than yesterday - so this is after the update. Now I can't open anything from Affinity's Open command in the file menu, but I can open files with the Open Recent. But I can open Finder and double click in any AD file there, whether it is is documents or any subfolder and it will open the file in Affinity. Now to work out what Console is.

OK, easy things first: I think I updated Yosemite last night and I haven't used affinity since, I was using Save As I can drag the file from documents to the subfolder Once in the subfolder I can go to affinity and open using Open in the File menu Now I'll check affinity and check on that update, too

I've checked this out as thoroughly as I know how. My permissions are set to read and write for me.. I've checked Apple support and can't find any clues there. I can create Pages and Numbers documents and save them directly into the subfolders. I can save to desktop and documents with all these things. But I still can't save an Affinity document directly into a subfolder.

A lovely baby owl. I like his feathers, they are pretty and delicate.

I really don't think there is a right or a wrong, businesses will use whichever they think will capture the buying public's attention at the time so designs will tend to cycle through the two styles depending on the context. Logos seem to have settled into flat which suggests to me that flat is remembered and identified more easily and causes little "annoyance" when seen on packaging and on TV. You find some flat design difficult to navigate? That makes sense. Perhaps a skeuomorphic design is like the Times New Roman font - the curly bits are supposed to help the eye to follow the text, so maybe the semi-realistic light and shade of skeuomorphic design does the same with some UIs?

There's something I'm not getting that's different with Macs, I have a hunch, so I'll look at it again (might be 'read the mac manual' time) and I'll let you know what, if anything, I discover.

Very odd, I can save to Documents but not to any folder that I've created. But I can save 'Page' documents. Let me try something else (I'm beginning to feel very at-home with this Mac :D )

I've just created two 'pages' documents and saved them in different subfolders successfully.

I haven't tried saving a file to the desktops but the screenshots go there, as they should. Yes, I can save file to the Documents folder. Then I can drag them into the other folders.

I think it's just the nature of development - how often do I say to my daughter "I wish I'd kept the one I had in the 60s/70s/80s/90s" about something that is new and cutting edge to her. So I'll prophesy that there are only two ways of producing an image on a computer screen: flat and not-flat (skeuomorphic) and business will switch from one to the other at that point in time when the first is getting to look old fashioned. I like the flat because it's fresh and uncluttered - for now :) I like what you are doing, btw, they would look nice framed, for sale, in a department store. They are very much of the moment and I would have them in my studio if I had a studio.

OK - found the sharing and permission, it looks like I've got read and write permission (that's my name top of the list), but I'm attaching the screenshot anyway, I can drag saved files into the folders, just not save them to the folders directly, which seems odd, too.

This is a screenshot of the documents folders structure

And this might be a screenshot of my directory structure

First attempt at a screen shot... I started a new document to replicate yesterday's event

Yes....it said something like (sorry, it was well after midnight...) file cannot be saved, you might not have noticed that it was read-only. (But neiher file was set to read only and my file saved correctly if I went back to the top of the tree and ignored the folders.) I can go over to the Mac and try again.

Thank you for such an interesting thread, I had never heard of skeuomorphism so I googled it. It seems that I am in favour of the modern without realising it, the googles images page has some great pairs of images and I was surprised to find that I own a "modern" flat Windows phone whilst my daughter has the rounded corners of the iphone. Another hobby, of recent years, has been to spot the slight changes is various Serif desktop icons....interesting. This is a good place to learn about design. Room for both, I would say :)

This may be a Mac issue, but I'm new to Mac, I like to organise my work into folders but I can't save directly into a subfolder. I tried this first with Ben's Batman drawing but thought it was protected in some way. I tried again with my sunset painting. As Affinity Designer is the only program I'm using on my MacPro at the moment, my directory structure is: Documents Affinity Designer AD Gallery AD WIP I was trying to save into the AD WIP folder. I had created the folders the day before and sorted out all my work so far and not had any problems with the folders. The work in progress folder already has a lot of content (the trash has even more) and my completed pages will go into the Gallery folder.

Thank you, both :) I enjoyed doing this and taught myself some new things,I shall carry on and learn and improve as I go :) About three hours, but that included having a few arguments with my MacPro when it would not save my work, and learning how to resize the windows so that I could see part of the photograph at the same time.