PhilC

Thank you Hans De Smaele. The workaround works with Adobe Bridge for me. This workaround should not be necessary. Serif should release software that works with existing programs, not insist that others developers adapt to them. This seems especially true as I suspect that many Serif users call Affinity from other programs such as Adobe, DxO, RawTherapee, etc. Seems obvious to me that this would be advantageous to Serif. Why would other vendors want to make it easy to access Serif software. If Serif wants to isolate its software, then I think it needs at a minimum to include a Browser similar to Adobe Bridge.

Finally found the location in the AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps/SerifEurope ..... but Adobe Bridge cannot access it. The Adobe message is "The file cannot be accessed by the system." I can't find much excuse for this. The program should install in the Windows/Program Files/Affinity like any well behaved program and like Photo V1. Stay the hell out of AppData and particularly the Microsoft section. FIX IT. I just paid money to buy the "upgrade"

Lightroom is versatile but bloated and slow. I'd be happy with a simple photo browser with somewhat limited functionality such as Adobe Bridge. Raw conversion could continue to live in the main photo program. But the Affinity raw converter really needs a serious overhaul for speed.

Ditto. Very slow on raw. Would seem likely a fundamental coding weakness as other raw converters are much faster. Adobe finally, at least partially, addressed the snail slow Lightroom problem after years of complaints.

I really second the need for a DAM app. Need not include all the editing, import/export, and printing features of LR, but needs to catalog, organize, and perhaps copy/apply develop/editing settings from one file to others. An "Adobe Bridge" type program would be an appropriate starting template.