walt.farrell

You have both the left and right studios showing in that screenshot. If you think you should have more panels showing in the left studio, perhaps check the Window menu to see which studio panels you have asked for. You might also check the View menu to see whether you have the Toolbar, Context Toolbar, and Tools selected.

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Did you install using the Microsoft Store, or the Affinity Store? And if from the Affinity Store, did you install using the standard MSIX installer or the optional EXE installer?

Have you tried restarting your Mac?

You have an installation operation for something in progress. You might try restarting Windows.

A screenshot of the complete application window would help.

Do you have multiple monitors, or do you ever have multiple monitors attached to that system? If so, perhaps the plugin window is starting on a different monitor than you currently are using. Also, in Windows Task Manager, do you have an entry like this one? If so, then the plugin is running, and a failure to display the dialog is probably something you would need to discuss with its developers.

And Windows is set to use Affinity Photo 2 for JPG files?

It's not. Is it entirely off of the Artboard, or is it partly on the Artboard and partly on the pasteboard? The latter (partly on, partly off) won't work.

The Serif Info Bot hasn't posted to say it's fixed, so it probably isn't.

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Remove Download removes it only from that device. It will remain downloaded on other devices that have it downloaded. Each device is unique, and manages its files separately. Delete truly deletes, both from any device that has it downloaded and from the cloud, too.

Can you give us a screenshot from File Explorer of the directory you installed the plugin into?

Strange. It works properly for me. I just put the .8bf file and the gmic folder into Affinity Photo's default plugin folder:

If you use the correct download link from gmic.eu, it takes you to the github site to perform the download. You still need to choose the right download link there, however. (Though, having said that, I recall seeing reports from users who are running Affinity Photo 2 on Win 11 using an Arm64 processor. And in that case perhaps the arm64_win11 file would be appropriate.)

That sounds like you are starting your project using one of the "A" document Presets, which use mm as those paper sizes are standardized and defined as being in mm. Instead, you could use one of the Presets defined in inches, such as Letter or Legal. Or you could create your own Preset, or you could create and use a Template defined in inches.

No, as the application itself creates and populates the user folder. All that is required for installation is that the app package itself is put in the proper location. When the application runs, it will create the user folder (and other folders that are needed for that user's data). The main question from the OP is not about installation (which homebrew apparently handles) but about migration from one machine to a different one.

Yes.

Ok; folders. The point is, the default and custom brushes are not in the same folder, in either V1 or V2, on either Windows or macOS.

It is unclear (to me) from your descriptions where you're looking at files. The choices as I understand them are: In a web browser, at icloud.com or On a device, in Files or File Explorer. As far as I know, "Remove Download" (or, in Windows, Free Up Space) is only available in scenario 2. If you are in scenario 1 (web browser) you only have a choice to Delete the file. So, can you clarify exactly where you are looking, and maybe provide some screenshots of what you're seeing?

The problem with that approach (which I also sometimes use) is that you often need to search both the Windows and the Mac bug forums, since you can't be sure where it will be reported in many cases.

Yes, I know. But the main point is that the statement I was responding to (that the default and user brushes are in the same file) is incorrect, for both Mac and Windows. It was simply easier to show the example using Windows, but it's true for both.

No, they aren't, at least on Windows (and I'm pretty sure it's also true on macOS). On Windows, for example, and using the MSIX install for V2, the default brushes are installed into .propcol files located in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\SerifEuropeLtd.AffinityDesigner2_2.3.0.2165_x64__3cqzy0nppv2rt\App\Resources\Affinity Designer but they are then copied into the user folder at C:\Users\<username>\.affinity\Common\2.0\user When you make changes to the brushes, the copy of the file in the user folder is updated. When you Reset the brushes (e.g., via a Ctrl run-up), the default file is copied from the Resources folder to the user folder, overwriting any changes you may have made there. It works the same way using the EXE installer for V2, and it works the same way on V1, though the folder paths are different for both.

That depends on how you performed the uninstall. A standard Windows uninstall of the apps does not delete the user-data created by the apps, and in that case, yes, a Factory Reset can make a difference.

It was from Questions, not Bugs, but it includes a bug tracking tag/number, and thus is trackable. It wasn't easily searched, though, if one restricts searches to the Bug forums

A forum hint for you, @yixi: A Bug report should normally go in one of the Bug forums, not in the Feedback forum. For macOS, that would be in V2 Bugs Found on macOS What you have reported is a known issue, by the way, and is already covered in the V2 FAQ forum: