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Mine look like yours in Photo, Designer, and Publisher, on both the iMac and the Macbook Pro. Methinks the problem lies elsewhere.

You are very welcome😊

If they show in MY ACCOUNT as able to be downloaded directly (little cloud icon) then they must be either free or bundles that you have purchased at some time in the past. If they show a little black Affinity icon then you are directed to the Affinity Store where you will find the status. Needless to say, if you have previously purchased those bundles you can download them again as many times as you like on devices you own with the same operating systems.

Why not try one of the bundles and see if it downloads to your machine? On occasion Serif has provided some free content. Anything that you can successfully install on your machine is probably one of those free bundles. They contain some very nice things!🤗

Wonderful dogs. Miss mine every day. Thank you @Alfred !

Welcome to the forums. @EvilMP😊. Were the brushes perhaps raster brushes? If so, you should find them in your brushes panel after you click on the Pixel Persona, which is the second icon from the left at the top left of your desktop. Hope this helps!

A link to a schedule @Alfred Good thing there is only one more day in this work week!!

Well here he is, squared off bum included, in the file I downloaded from @MattP's post. I didn't think I should fiddle with a masterpiece!

Odd. Here is what I have. Which cat? Also, shall I download the assets file again, in case anybody wants it? Or just give it a pass?

Good move! I am keeping my two machines separated for the same kind of reason. The Mac has my books safely on it. The MacBook is for fun and fiddling. (Although I am currently finding my Affinity cat assets -- versions 2 and 3, in the depths of my Mac.) Air Drop to the rescue!!

I am keeping my eventually-to-become creaky Mac paddling along with 1.8.4, just in case I am up the creek while wading through something vital to my joie de vivre. The MacBook is for whizzing through new stuff. (Always possible to save as a PDF.)

Except that @v_kyr is still up the creek without a paddle. The new original cat file is apparently created on v 1.9. It won't open in my . 1.8..4. Good thing I have a new MacBook Pro with v 1.9. KNEW I bought it for a good reason!

Maybe a separate section in My Account, just to be sure we are all on our toes (oops -- paws).

Next AUGUST???? Oh'h'h'h'h'h phooey. But Brian is definitely pondering "Windows or Mac?"

The My Account feature is not an advertising gambit. It has undoubtedly been designed to help us easily install across our compatible devices items which we have already chosen to purchase directly from the Affinity store. It is up to us to respond to emails from Affinity, announcing new items or special offers we may wish to purchase. Or to log in to the Affinity Store to see whether there is something we would like to purchase. Hope this helps.

@v_kyrposted this in another section of the Forums. Problem solved?

Perhaps this is a Windows bug then. Here is what I get after I choose to export a document, and click on the blue Export Button. If I want the file to go to the desktop (as shown here) I click on Save, and then when I go to the desktop the file is automatically identified as “christmas-rose-4926141_1920.jpg. .

Welcome to the Forums @s jones 😊 When you choose FILE>SAVE or FILE>SAVE AS your document will automatically be saved as an .afphoto or an .afdesigner or an .afpub file, depending upon the app you are using. If you want to save your document as a JPEG, or PNG, or another format you must use FILE>EXPORT and then select your choice from the popup window. This has actually not changed from update to update. Hope this helps.

@Freddie360. This is a new way to reach the sliders popup window for each adjustment. In the Adjustments Panel, click on the little icon for the one you want (i.e. HSL) and then double click on the first icon below it on the left “default”. The slider popup opens. This is actually much much faster than the previous LAYER>NEW ADJUSTMENT LAYER>HSL... and with a little use becomes — in my own opinion — really nice. Just my opinion, though. Don’t reboot your computer!!!

@GarryP must definitely be a Mac issue. Doesn't work with PDF export even though it is functioning perfectly with VIEW>Studio Presets. Just tried it on my Macbook Pro.

@haakoo is right. The simple solution is for you to make a backup folder on your machine (in my case in Finder because I use a Mac) for each category you may possibly want to import into one or more of your apps — assets, brushes, palettes, styles, macros, LUTs, etc. Sample: Affinity Brushes. When you find/or purchase a bundle that you may wish to use some day, download it to your Downloads folder, then copy it to the appropriate backup folder. When the need arises, all you have to do is go to the appropriate panel, i.e. Brushes in the app you are currently using (i.e. Designer) and click on the hamburger and choose Import Brushes and select the bundle you want from your backup folder. You can always Export it back out to your desktop when you are finished and delete it — therefore not wasting disk space — so you will not have an extra copy in your main backup folder. Your permanent backup folders will be your “common suite of content.” With the advantage that they can expand or contract at your discretion.

@CaroleG Good choice! Although I am not v_kyr I would definitely follow his advice. No, you don't have to update from Catalina to Big Sur. @v_kyr is absolutely right! You are probably getting a little popup update notice about the Big Sur update in the top right of your desktop. Just click on the LEFT side of that little box, in the little icon at the top left corner, and that will open the Update screen. Don't be frightened. Just use your mouse and click on the red dot at the top left of that screen , and it will close. Periodically you will be pestered by the same notice, but you can repeat the process and hide it until the next time. Repeat. That same procedure will occur when there are available updates for other apps on your computer, such as Safari, or Photos, or iBooks. You can always choose to either update something, or ignore it. If you don't open any web site that your MAC shows as Insecure (you will see that notification where you type in the name of the website if you are using your Safari web browser) you should not need any antivirus software. If you purchased your new Mac from Apple and ever have a strange problem, you can contact their Tech Support and they will walk you through the solution. They are very, very helpful. Just be careful not to open strange websites or those with the "Insecure" notification, and of course -- as you already surely know -- don't open any strange email. Which has nothing to do with Affinity, or Big Sur, but you will find that your Mac, just like your iPad, is very good at sorting out Junk mail.😊

Hi @CaroleG glad to see that you have your new Mac! Don’t feel like an idiot, because there will be several differences as you get used to your new machine. I switched to Mac in 2013 after decades of Microsoft and also floundered a little for a short time. And then everything was clear as a bell. So ask away. There are so many “old hands” on these Forums who have helped me times out of mind and they will be here to help you too. So again, welcome aboard!! P.S. If you would like to flag your helper’s attention to a reply from you, you can type the @ symbol immediately followed by the poster’s user name (try it with your own) and you will be shown a little downward heading window with user names. When you reach the one you want, click on that and it will turn up in your comment section highlighted in blue. That will then flag the person that they have a response. 😊

Welcome to the Forums @coderman. I don’t have your high-powered Mac Pro but Photo v. 1.9 loads on my 2020 Macbook Pro (Big Sur, M1 chip) in about 1 second — consistently. I haven’t yet updated Designer or Publisher, being temporarily busy with other things, but the v. 1.9 Betas for both also open consistently in less than a second. Hardly a bag of bricks. On my 2017 Mac (High Sierra) I am keeping v. 1.8.4 of each app. They all open a bit more slowly but that is really my fault, having loaded them to the gills with Assets, Brushes, Palettes, Styles, etc. Think it might be the old fable about the tortoise and the hare?🤔

You are very welcome!