SimonGidney

Update: I really didn't think it would work, but a reboot seems to have fixed this issue. Perhaps 'reboot required' is one of the exciting new features of this new-fangled MSIX installer! Another feature I particularly like is invisibility in the appwiz.cpl world (Add/Remove Programs, or Programs and Features, to modern users). Ho hum...

Yes, I get the same, for all three apps when double clicking on an Affinity document. I thought it was because I still had the version 1 set installed, when I installed the v2 set, but uninstalling all of those didn't help. In fact it made things worse, because prior to uninstalling them I would sometimes get the "How do you want to open this..." dialog. I know I can hack around in the registry to fix what we once called 'file associations', but that get harder and harder with each version of Windows and I'd rather not. FWIW, the large icon view of my document still shows the previews perfectly well, so something's working. Simon

This one hit me too today. It's very annoying and very repeatable. I know it's easy and probably correct to blame Microsoft for this one, but please reassure us that a fix will be included in a future update to Designer. Having the app crash is quite shocking these days. Surely a try/catch/warning/broken feature would be a simple safeguard to implement and a least worst option. Better still, a fix...

I absolutely agree with this. I've been caught out by it several times now. (Designer v1.6.0.89) The worst part is when you come to close the document. It doesn't close as expected, instead you are presented with the option to SAVE. This is unexpected, because you've been saving all along, so the instinct is to hit CANCEL. But cancel doesn't go back to where you were, with the document open, instead the unsaved document is CLOSED! And your work is lost. I'm sure this is quite an obscure scenario that QA haven't got in their tests. But it absolutely needs to be caught. Either ctrl+s should warn if a save doesn't happen (why wouldn't anyone want that from an application?) or the cancel button at the end shouldn't close the document. Ideally both of these. Apart from this, I'm still enjoying Designer and Photo as my Adobe replacements. Keep up the good work.