Paul Mudditt

You said you looked under Pixel persona, that would not show you how it looks as pixels, it still shows vectors as vectors in pixel persona. Only under Navigator can you see how it would appear as pixels or retina pixels. Your image is very small 768pixels x 768pixels. Look under the navigator to see how your image looks as pixels not vector view. I would at least double your document pixel dimensions to at least 1536x1536 or preferably 3072x3072 if you want your subtle gradient shading effects to be visible when you convert from a vector format to a pixel format.

It would help if you could upload an example affinity file or a full screen recording with the layers panel and context toolbar clearly visible so we can figure out what is going wrong.

As I mentioned on the other thread, use rasterise and trim after nesting to any shape you want to destructively clip a layer in Photo. Screen Recording 2024-04-15 at 12.50.52.mov

Backup and restore is very robust now using iCloud and my preferred method, if you have tens of thousands of photos it can take several days to fully restore. However if low level file system is damaged you may need to use a desktop restore or even more a DFU restore cycle.

That is worrying, sounds like your file system may have some corruptions, you do have plenty of iPad space still left? Assuming that is ok then I would ensure you are backed up to iCloud AND your desktop then try one or more of these:- 1. Closing ALL OPEN apps, wait a about a minute then doing a Forced Restart. You will not lose any settings or data. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/ipad/ipad9955c007/ipados 2. If that does not solve it, try Settings -> General -> Transfer or Reset iPad -> Reset -> Reset All Settings. You will lose Wifi passwords and have to re-enter any customisations you have done eg widgets etc. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/ipad/ipad9a74dc01/ipados 3. If that does not solve it then you will need to consider erasing your iPad and restore it from backup. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/ipad/ipad9a74c804/ipados

I use the files app all the time and never encountered a bug, are you using it with some external device ?

Google likes to track everything you think and everything you do so it can push advertising your way. It won't like that it can't open affinity files to inspect the contents unlike the more common data file formats hence greyed out. Because of this it is the worst cloud service, change to a proper cloud service like iCloud, Dropbox or Onedrive is the only advice I can give.

Double tap the last point. Although the screen recording. doesn’t show it, I end each line segment by a double tap rather than a single tap. RPReplay_Final1712912197.mp4

Genuinely interested, what algorithm does paint.net use to allow high resolution image? or was it vector ? reduction without such a massive loss of quality, please post your results from paint.net so the developers have something to work to.

Eh, you want to reduce the pixel resolution by 7x and wonder why it is pixelated ? RPReplay_Final1711982591.mov

The Macro studio shows you the steps record in a macro. The Library studio is the list of all the macro categories and individual macros within each category. Screen Recording 2024-04-01 at 07.30.03.mov Screen Recording 2024-04-01 at 07.32.50.mov

I have seen several reports of weird problems with the iPad Files app recently, try deleting it, closing all apps then do a Forced Restart and reinstalling it.

I don't understand what the original problem is or was since I use Sonomo on my Mac Mini and search works ok for me. What I don't like about the web browser version is it vanishes when another app gets focus which was very unexpected. Screen Recording 2024-03-30 at 08.43.31.mov

Good. You are not running short of space are you?

The admins will tell me off again but have you tried closing all open apps then doing a Forced Restart as many iPad problems can be fixed this way. https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/ipad/ipad9955c007/ipados By the way a new beta 2.4.2 just dropped 2 minutes ago.