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10 hours ago, thomaso said:
Note, macOS doesn't report all free disk space immediately. It may take some hours, a reboot may push it (without the option to open apps automatically).
When I use the Apple menu item "About this Mac" & click on the Storage tab, it immediately shows the used & free space available on all my mounted drives. Likewise, if I use the System Report app, it also shows the free space via the Hardware > Storage tab. AFAIK, it has never failed to promptly provide accurate info withing seconds, even if the Mac has not been restarted for many days.
How are you checking for that?
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40 minutes ago, Gianni Becattini said:
or to add an external hard disk, to keep synced as well, but this seems impossible with iCloud
How have you tried to do this? What makes it impossible?
Regardless, please keep in mind that it is strongly recommended that you work on files while they are stored locally, ideally on your internal/startup drive, moving them from the cloud to the local drive if already stored in the cloud, & only move them back onto a cloud service after saving & closing them to the local drive.
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7 hours ago, Gianni Becattini said:
Today my 1G hard disk is becoming small...
Perhaps you mean 1 Terabyte, not 1 Gigabyte?
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2 hours ago, Jhjennings said:
So, my next step will be to replace the printer.
Many inkjet printers have some built-in method of cleaning clogged print heads, so before investing in a new printer you might want to check the printer manual to see what if any maintenance or troubleshooting options it offers.
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I am a Mac user but I searched the web on "associate an extension with an app in Windows 11" & got multiple hits. The first one is "https://www.fortect.com/how-to-guides/file-associations-in-windows-11/" with 5 different methods.
There are other hits but that one should give you choices so you can pick the one you like best.
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FWIW, on my Mac the files in these temp folders for each of the Affinity apps usually are automatically emptied whenever I quit the app but occasionally one or more are not. I have never figured out why -- it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the app crashing or anything else I can identify.
But even if the app is running, as long as there are no open documents in it, I have never seen any problems with it if I delete any/all the files in that folder. But keep in mind this is a 'use at your own risk' thing, not a recommendation for you to do it.
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9 hours ago, carl123 said:
It has been requested that that option get a confirmation dialog to prevent accidental clearing of the recent list.
I don't understand why that would be needed or wanted. First, if it is the Clear Menu item on the File > Open Recent submenu that we are talking about, it is next to the last item on it, so assuming there are at least a few recents shown users have to move the pointer down to it to choose it, which to me seems unlikely to be done by accident. I Do use the "More..." item at the bottom frequently, so to avoid even having to open the menu, I created a keyboard shortcut for that (Option-O on my Mac), so for me the chances of hitting clear by accident are basically zero.
But more to the point, even if it does get cleared by accident, it should be easy enough in Finder on Macs to search for files with the *.afdesign extension, sort by date, & choose any number of the more recent ones to open. I assume something similar can be done in Windows. So if that is true, then it should be easy enogh to open all the desired recent ones, use Close All to close them all in one step, & thus repopulate that menu.
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Do you mean the menu item File > Open Recent > Clear Menu or something else?
28 minutes ago, d3ed said:And make it so that this "More..." feature has the option to see ALL afdesign docs on the computer, not just the recent, not just in one folder... ALL of them..
I have hundreds of AD files on my Mac, so it would be impractical to list them all in one "Open Recent" list. But on Macs there are Finder options (so-called Smart Folders) that can list all of them, or all that meet certain criteria like size, date range, etc., which is a far more flexible & to me useful way to find my AD files. I am not sy=ure but I assume there is something similar in Windows.
Anyway, there is a dedicated Feature Requests & Feedback forum for things like this, so please post your requests there, not here in Questions where the powers that be are not likely to see them.
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6 hours ago, Marathon1908 said:
However AFpub on the Mac only wanted to save the package to iCloud. and then in a separate folder. A message came up there are other files in the folder.
Could you explain more about how specifically it 'wanted' to do that, & what other files were in the iCloud folder you wanted to save it to?
Something seems very odd about that but maybe I'm missing something obvious....
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4 hours ago, stutes said:
(it's possible the "6LVT..." prefix may be unique? I don't know)
It is the unique Apple developer ID assigned to Serif/Affinity, signifying that the company is member of the Apple Developer Program. If you look in ~/Library/Group Containers you may see other similar ones like 4R6749AYRE for Pixelmator or other apps you bought.
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5 hours ago, walt.farrell said:
Also, at least on macOS, there's a specific option when you start the application with Ctrl pressed to clear the most-recently-used files list.
On Macs, it is named "Reset Most Recent Documents" & it is possible to deactivate all other reset options except that one, so it is minimally disruptive. @martenf, have you tried that; or at least tried starting APub with the CTRL key held down to display the resets options? Some users have trouble getting that window to display, but once you do, you can click "Cancel" to reset nothing, so maybe see if that works.
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4 minutes ago, RNKLN said:
I don't know if there are different types of .tiff files, but this is how I do it in Finder (no need to actually open the file).
have you tried the CMD+L & CMD+R keyboard shortcuts?
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2 hours ago, Keve said:Quote
What happens if you use the Finder to rotate the images?
Well, no, I can't "open" the tiff in Finder
I think what @RNKLN was asking about is you can rotate images in Finder without opening them. One way is to use CMD + L or CMD + R to rotate in 90° steps. You can also use Finder's Quick Look to rotate the image via the small rotate CCW button in the header, next to the annotate button.
Try it with this simple Pointer.tiff file to see how it works.
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1 hour ago, kat said:
I did some research on my lasso tool issue. Here's what I came up with. I suspect it is a software issue.
- With Polygonal always set to New. "Add" might cause issues.
What issues? Do you mean after using "New" to create a selection, switching to "Add" does not add to the selection? If so, that works fine for me on my Mac.
Also, using hardware acceleration does not cause any issues with this or any other tool for me, so again I wonder what issues you are talking about.
1 hour ago, kat said:I'd thought about using the pen tool, but didn't realize it would be so simple to use for selections in AP, no need to switch to AD.
Switching to AD would not work for this because its Pen Tool does not have the Selection option to convert a vector path to a selection (or to a Mask) like AP's Pen Tool does.
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1 hour ago, Keve said:
Sighing even more. I cannot create my own export presets. Perhaps it's because I'm on a Mac.
No, it because the TIFF RGB 16-bit preset with Bilinear resampling already exists -- it is built into the app, & can not be duplicated, deleted, or renamed. So try some other export option, like just for testing TIFF RGB 16-bit with Bicubic resampling, named "Test" or whatever. That will allow you to Create a new preset, & once created you can rename or delete it.
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1 hour ago, kat said:
Freehand Lasso Polygonal
As I said, the name of that tool is the Freehand Selection Tool, & the selection Type: is Polygonal. I also asked you to say what Mode: you have chosen, so could you either say what it is or provide a slightly wider screenshot showing that?
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4 hours ago, LuckyOne777 said:
...I cannot get the tool bar that drops down on the left side to appear on screen...
As @h_d mentioned, you probably have disabled the "Show tools" option on the View menu.
FWIW, in Affinity-speak this is not called a toolbar, nor is it a dropdown, which is the term used for menus that open (drop down) when clicked on them. In Affinity-speak this is simply called the Tools panel, while the panels on the right (& optionally on the left) or floating are called Studio panels, & can be grouped, presets created for them, & so on.
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2 minutes ago, kat said:
polygonal selection tool
There is no tool named "polygonal selection tool,' so do you mean the Type: option named "Polygonal" of the Freehand Selection Tool or something else?
If it is that tool, what Mode: does the context toolbar for it show? What other options for it does the context toolbar show?
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3 minutes ago, Louise Cloutier said:
OH! I fiddled with it, and it clicked into place. Huzzah.
So what, if anything, is left that you need help sorting out about the UI?
Tip: once everything is the way you would like it, use the Window > Studio > Add Preset menu item to create a preset for that layout so you can return to it at any time.
Also, spending a little time reviewing the help topics & video tutorials for the app will show you all kinds of possibilities you might otherwise overlook that will help you work more quickly, confidently, & efficiently.
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12 minutes ago, Louise Cloutier said:
There's a whole lot of tools across the top now that I never had before.
Tools are in the Tools panel, which can be docked or floating but they are always displayed vertically, not horizontally. So the items across the top are not tools but various things displayed in the 2 toolbars (main & context), & as has been mentioned will change depending on the persona & for the context one on item selected.
So it would be really helpful if you could take the time to tell us the names of some of those items. You can find out what their names are by hovering the pointer over them one at a time until tooltip pops up, which will display the name of that item.
Basically, try to keep in mind that menus, toolbars, Studio panels, & tools are each different things, so try to be as specific as you can about which one(s) you are talking about.
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4 minutes ago, Louise Cloutier said:
No X indicating that anything is locked.
They are there in your screenshot. Just look at the edges & corners of the blue bounding box in that shot.
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1 minute ago, Old Bruce said:
Choose the Text Tool.
Also note the X's around the selected item (whatever it is), indicating that either the selected layer is locked or the document includes a master page layer. The latter would be obvious if we could see the bottom of the UI window, but for whatever reason the screenshot includes some extraneous stuff about cookies. I have no idea why that is included.
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Just now, Louise Cloutier said:
It is checked. I tried checking and unchecking it, didn't solve the problem
With it visible, select a text object. What does it show?
Can be the content of this folder deleted?
in Desktop Questions (macOS and Windows)
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But do move the files to any local folder that you sync with a folder on iCloud? This can cause problems, so it is best to make sure that the local folder is not synced withiCloud or any other cloud service.
https://www.multcloud.com/tutorials/backup-external-hard-drive-to-icloud-1207-gc.html#:~:text=Step 1%3A Open a Finder,Drive section in the sidebar.
Does this not work for you?