Adalbertus

So, it was for sure ~780GB free space on HDD on the the same partition where was project file. In free time I will be trying to recreate that bug on some sample projects, and if there will be some hmm... successes in finding good way to recreate that strange behaviour I'll let You know.

It's ok, I understand that application is still in intensive development So: No backups for different file versions. Free storage space was much bigger than file size. File was saved as .afdesign on local drive.

It seems that Your file is very good AD killer I've never yet had such problem with AD, but with Your file my copy of AD is unusable and unresponsive. My config is old a bit, but in most of the tasks is ok: Xeon E5450 3GHz 8GB RAM (DDR2) GT 730 2 GB Windows 7 64bit

Ok, I don't know why you have created this work in this way, because it's whole structure looks strange a bit But this is not the main problem. Problem was that AD was showing You something else than in exported PDF and than in print, as You reported. I can't technically explain what is the reason, but I've made some tests. Rasterised exported files are ok - rather obvious, but... To achieve good exported file without rasterisation I've changed a bit structure of Your layers - see screenshot. It seems that problem is caused by elements making background (mask and rectangle) in Your lower group. Check the PDF file. I don't have Your font but this is not important. Can someone more experienced in technical details explain this whole case? 4449_ticket_2017b.pdf

Can You provide project file? Because it's hard to say what can be wrong with project or with the software without that file. I understand that his is your main and only problem with this?

Today I've worked few hours with few breaks (with AD active in background) on some document in A4 size. It has few embedded documents with logos (like 3x eps and 1x ai formats). Also there was 4 or 5 photos, few simple shapes with basic transforms (like skew and rotation) and text frames. No FX effects, no adjustments masks etc. Working on it was fast, without performance problems etc. I was saving this file regularly after every bigger step. And suddenly I've discovered that I can't save the file (Ctrl+S) and on the tab with file name I've seen Read Only status (anyway it's first time from beginning my work with Affinity). I thought ok, because just before I've saved file, so I close the file and load it again. On closing appeared message with saving file option (Save as). I've chosen that, and I've changed existing file - because not many changes was made, so nothing will happen even if they will be omitted.... That was what I've assumed. And after closing the AD I've realized by looking on the file image icon preview that in some way, my whole work is backed to the one of the first versions of that file... After loading it, I've got message about recovery file and yes I've recovered it, but as the file icon shown, it was very old file version. Windows (10) doesn't have in it's file recovery tool any version of that file so... Whole design work is gone now... forever. I can't provide now that file because it's private company's inside file, and now it's changed anyway. Maybe on staff priv only. Any ideas what could gone wrong? I've found similar topic but in Beta category: EDIT: In meanwhile I've recreated and finished the project, I've changed it much with using high quality photos, but worked on it without embedded files and so far so good. Maybe there is a problem, in managing embedded files?