RamiT

Hi Actually now that you mentioned exceeding 3000+ files i noticed it might have something to do with extensis suitcase plugin and fonts actually. I have extensis suitcase and its plugin for adobe cc that creates its own font browsing panel inside photoshop, illustrator, indesign and i have tons of lines as below in the console, all related to affinity photo beta and suitcase, i did not realize these are related to my problem but since i have all fonts activated that could explain exceeding the maximum file limit here. I am lazy so i usually don't make font groups and activate / deactivate as needed since i haven't noticed any notable performance hiccups anyways even if i have all fonts loaded. But hmm maybe i should =) Here an example of one of those lines in console, all are similar and related to photo beta and suitcase: 02/04/15 18:28:39,602 Affinity Photo Beta[1185]: could not consume extension for /Users/ramit/Library/Extensis/Suitcase Fusion/Suitcase Fusion.fontvault/SA/l/OTPS/Adobe Systems/MyriadPro-SemiboldSemiCn/2.037/4276478249/MyriadPro-SemiboldSemiCn.otf (12:Cannot allocate memory) 02/04/15 18:28:39,602 Affinity Photo Beta[1185]: failed consuming extension 0 of 39 "Do you have any other application's open that are also Sandboxed?" This i don't know since i have minimal knowledge of OS X sandboxing. If fonts are eating sandboxing resources is there a way to fix that without deactivating most of fonts or should i just deactivate those i don't never use anyways? Rami EDIT: i tested deactivating most of my fonts and problem solved =) both designer and photo work as should now. It would still be interesting to know why affinity apps conflicted with suitcase and fonts like this since i haven't run into similar problems with any other software. Anyways thanks Andy, i would not have thought of fonts without your input.

Hi, by looking messages in console it indeed looks like OS X is blocking both designer and photo for some reason. I tried to save file i created in designer: 02/04/15 18:21:31,283 Affinity Designer[1088]: __41+[NSSavePanel _consumeSandboxExtensions:]_block_invoke: sandbox_consume_fs_extension failed 02/04/15 18:21:31,000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: Affinity Designe(1088) deny file-write-create /Users/ramit/Documents/TYOT/temp/test.afdesign 02/04/15 18:21:31,000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: Affinity Designe(1088) deny file-read-data /private/var/folders/s1/7l1z0r591fx108cww7q4sffm0000gn/C/com.apple.iconservices/store.index 02/04/15 18:21:31,000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: Affinity Designe(1088) deny file-read-data /private/var/folders/s1/7l1z0r591fx108cww7q4sffm0000gn/C/com.apple.iconservices/store.index Then i tried to open a psd file in photo beta: 02/04/15 18:28:53,775 Affinity Photo Beta[1185]: __41+[NSSavePanel _consumeSandboxExtensions:]_block_invoke: sandbox_consume_fs_extension failed 02/04/15 18:28:53,000 kernel[0]: Sandbox: Affinity Photo B(1185) deny file-read-data /Users/ramitiihonen/Documents/TYOT/i-no/knauf/ino.psd I checked security & privacy settings and i actually have the allow apps downloaded from : anywhere setting on so its not that either. Also adding designer to Allow the apps below to control your computer section did not do anything, neither did turning firewall off.

Hi i have weird problem with both designer and photo beta (iMac 5k, OS X yosemite 10.10.2, designer 1.2 and photo beta 1.1.2). I can't save or open any files with designer or photo beta (including affinitys own files or all image files, pdf, ai ....) unless the files i try to open are in pictures folder or i save to pictures folder (pictures folder that OS X creates for user). Anywhere else, i get the error message you don't have permissions... or file is corrupt... or file is not found... If i copy files to pictures folder then i can open them without problems. Also preview in open file dialog shows red cross with all files when files are outside pictures folder. So this is clearly some kind of wicked permissions problem between OS X and affinity apps only. I don't have any permission problems with other softwares (like adobe cc, manga studio etc). I also tried running the repair permission command but it had no effect whatsoever and i don't know what else to try. I recall with adobes software corrupted preferences files can cause problems so could this be something similar? Anyway i am out of ideas what to do. Reinstalling had no effect either. This is very annoying since i would love to use designer (and photo) but right now its impossible.

I have similar issue, i can't open any image file in affinity photo beta that is in documents or downloads folder (OS X yosemite 10.10.2), i just get the same permissions denied error with every single image file. If i move images to pictures folder then i can open them in affinity photo. Photoshop or any other program on the other hand can open the images from any location just fine, also i can place images to affinity designer without any problems. Strange thing is also that i could open a photo before (downloaded today from shutterstock to downloads folder) with affinity photo but after repairing permissions (i used Onyx maintenance app to run the repair permissions command) i now get the permission denier error with that image also.