Mrs. Photography

It wasn't my intention to make a big deal out of this.

I don't think I am splitting hairs here but you have omitted the intermediate stage between author and printer in your scenario. The publisher!

But if you BUY a book from a bookshop and the last page is missing? Or indeed a whole chapter! Surely the publishers of (in the case the soiftware) should be able to say how the software is sold. Yes, it could hav been a Windows update that made it unavailable again.

Does this work? (from the thread you linked to) Crude but effective - find the app, copy the folder contents somewhere else and use the copy! If so could you please elaborate as i am not an IT specialist. Thanks.

Hi, Yes, I went through that same procedure some time ago to get access to Affinity via Lightroom. However that no longer works. Maybe I should go through all that palaver again! It appears that lightroom went though some kind of "reset" recently which may have been the cause of my problem. I had an email exchange with a member of Serif staff about it and the answer was basically - sorry we can't help. I don't think that's very satisfactory, to be honest. As I also said in the post, I am also having problems opening Affinity directly as one normally would - ie I can't open it at all!

I downloaded Affinity Photo from the Microsoft store at the end of 2017. I haven't used it yet! At first I had a problem opening it from within Lightroom, because it was buried deep down inside Windows and LR couldn't find it. I managed to solve that one. Now it has disappeared from the "open in" drop-down menu in Lightroom, AND I can't open it any other way. There are two buttons for it in my start menu called (a) SerifEuropeLtd AffinityPhoto (followed by a series of numbers and letters) If I click on this I get a drop-down menu with the following folders AppXmetadata Program Resources and various small files. So I click on Program and get A list of "language" folders A list of mainly .dll files However there is also one called Photo.exe which looks promising. However it is only 8.99 mb and if i click on it I get nothing. (b) The other button is called "Program" and is a short-cut to step 2 of the above. I find this all incredibly frustrating and I just wish I'd bought it direct from Serif, not the MS store. Can anyone help?