jaftwo

Thanks, I'll give it a look. However, if the developers of Photo change the format of the xml code, it may not work, so keeping a backup of WindowProfile.xml is the way go for now.

Yes, I understand that and realize my post was a bit "pushy". This request is three pages long and was started in 2017. I'll have a look at how the config is saved now and make a backup script to restore it for now.

Since the program obviously already saves the current configuration upon exiting and loads that configuration upon starting, all that's needed is code to "save configuration as" and "load configuration". Why is that so difficult? (✿◕‿◕✿)

I typically use designer/photo on two monitors -- one with the main work window and the other monitor has my frequently used panels (windows) like assets, color, effects, layers...... But sometimes I'm watching do tasks where it's more convenient to run designer/photo on on monitor and view a tutorial or another app on the other monitor. The programs (designer/photo) obviously store the positions of all the panels upon program exit, so it wouldn't seem to be that hard to add a "save view" and "load view" process. Really disappointed this option doesn't exist!

Yes! First time in a long time the install worked without having to restart Windows first.

I restarted first before installing this time, but it still failed, but restarting again then worked.

I wonder if this is somehow related to my problem installing Publisher on my win10 system? I start the install and eventually it fails. I restart my computer and try the install again, it works (and very quickly, like it didn't have to reinstall everything again.) [edit] I should add that Designer and Photo both install fine (just installed the .532 versions)

Back to the "Setup failed" again unless I restart my computer first. (•_•)

I had that problem previously, but I just successfully installed all three (Designer, Photo, and Publisher release) versions 1.7.3.481. After the installs I uninstalled the betas.

Still fails -- 1.7.3.475 Booted computer to windows -- signed on to Internet -- read the new beta version email -- went to the beta site and downloaded Publisher -- ran as Administrator and it failed. Rebooted and ran again and it worked. It's like the first try does something to enable the second. [edit] Should have added, after it failed and before I rebooted, I tried to install again, but it failed immediately.

One thing that might help, I ran Publisher first to check the version, then exited. Maybe the failure wouldn't occur if I hadn't run Publisher at all since a reboot -- something left over after running and exiting?

Yes, to C:\Program Files\Affinity\Publisher Customer Beta

Still comes up with "setup failed", even when "Run as administrator". Have to reboot and try again to get a successful install. And no, it's not win10 since all my other software does not have this problem (including Photo and Designer.) Is this ever getting fixed?

The email links I just received for the 414 designer beta is wrong -- it takes me to the photo 414 release.

So I can start a new document in Publisher and then activate the Photo Persona, undock it's windows or panels and move them to the second monitor, and use it (Photo). It works fine. I still don't understand why it's so hard for it to use the configuration that Photo stores when I use it standalone, but will stop asking.