CC Hogan

Thank you for the information I have logged this issue with our developer.

Well, you took the risk.
At no point have I suggested that I wished to hack the software. I suggest you take your accusation back immediately. I do not hack, pirate or otherwise destroy other people’s work. Indeed, I have used and paid for Serif’s products for many years, long before their current offerings. I only wished to use the icons on a private remote that I use to help control the software at home.
I have obtained them from their publicly available PDF. 
 
I expect an apology.

Well, you took the risk.
At no point have I suggested that I wished to hack the software. I suggest you take your accusation back immediately. I do not hack, pirate or otherwise destroy other people’s work. Indeed, I have used and paid for Serif’s products for many years, long before their current offerings. I only wished to use the icons on a private remote that I use to help control the software at home.
I have obtained them from their publicly available PDF. 
 
I expect an apology.

Just to add that I am not getting any other performance issues (that I am aware of).

Yes I can confirm AP 2 slows to freezing up using the Blemish Tool in Develop Persona. I've never noticed this until now, because I just don't do that type of touch-up in the Develop Persona.

Something has changed in regard to this because once you develop, the blemishes you corrected can return. I wonder if its related. I'll do some investigating. Thanks! 

There's a FAQ about that: 
However, you may find it necessary to create a small .bat file and have the .bat file invoke the app execution alias. Perhaps something like this:
start /b affinityphoto2.exe %1 exit  

Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company! 
And so they should be.  They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.

Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company! 
And so they should be.  They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.

Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company! 
And so they should be.  They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.

Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company! 
And so they should be.  They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.

Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company! 
And so they should be.  They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.

Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company! 
And so they should be.  They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.

Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company! 
And so they should be.  They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.

Interesting discussion this, especially about whether their business model is sustainable.
It appears to be perfectly sustainable to me without any need to even consider subscription or charging for updates between major versions. The market out there for this price level of product is vast, (potentially bigger than for Adobe simply because it is lower cost).
I doubt they are running out of potential customers, or anywhere close. And each time they add more features or make the apps more powerful, that opens up another raft of potential customers.
Just look at how often new forum members appear, and remember, like with other apps, the large majority of users will never register for the forum.
Going by Serif's last submitted accounts, they are a very healthy, bouncy little company! 
And so they should be.  They have a good, solid history behind them.
I and my piggy bank are definitely looking forward to V2 without complaint.

One of the good things, but also one of the bad things, about the Adobe suite of apps is the Creative Cloud storage system.  The upside is that is is a central point for everything, but the huge downside is that it is yet ANOTHER cloud package with a cost.
I am sure this has been addressed before, but here is my thought.
A very simply app which runs on Windows/Mac/iOS.  Basically, it is an asset manager that you can link to ANY cloud service (plus local storage).  But, on top of being available as a standalone system, it also is built into all Affinity apps on all platforms.
In my head, you would set up a series of defaults.  This would be a default cloud (like OneDrive or pCloud etc) where everything is stored unless told otherwise.  However, on each device, you would also be able to set up default local storage that overrides device defaults.
The cloud storage would, initially, be three folders:
Assets Projects App Assets would include as asset library (as we already have, but being on the cloud, it is shared between devices), and a resource folder which can be used for brushes, palettes and other resources that are application and device wide.  I would love to "install" a brush there and know it will be available to all my applications on all my platforms when I next launch them.
The projects folder would be simply for projects and could contain multiple files, project assets and so on.  But again, available from all apps on all platforms.
This would make moving from Desktop to iPad, for instance, much more intuitive.  
In the future, I suppose this could include the ability to share with other users, but that might be problematic depending on the cloud platform.
The APP folder is simply where the app stores any additional data needed to make sure the app on all devices are saying the same thing!  That might not be necessary, I suppose, depending on how the system works.
My main thought about this approach is that it should use existing cloud solutions rather than selling yet another one. Firstly, I think people are fed up of having multiple cloud accounts with multiple subscriptions, and secondly, it allows people the choice of working with the environment they are happy with.  Lastly, of course, I am not sure Serif want the pain and overheads of managing a cloud solution!  Managing an App solution is much more attainable.
In addition, I do have problems with jumping between apps on the iPad (it is fiddly) and how different all that works between the iPad and desktop.  Something like this would, from the user perspective, iron out all those wrinkles by making it appear to work the same everywhere.
I don't see this app needing to be integrated into a cloud system.
I am certain this has all been said before, but this is just my take.

Anyway, at least there is a workaround by Sharing from the export screen.
With Save a Copy, I will have to save somewhere else and move it if I have problems.
At some point, it would be nice to have a dedicated Project Management App that works across all Affinity products and all devices. So, for instance, I could create a "Project" on OneDrive or pCloud or iCloud from the desktop, then anything created within that project from whatever device, is automatically saved to that location.  And exports and so on use the project location as default.  This could also apply to Asset folders and things.  
Also, that would neaten up opening in different apps.  From the project management app, one could open in Photo or Designer or Publisher as required without having to move the projects around.
Thanks for your help, Sean.  iOS and various third party apps are a bit of a mess at the moment.

It's very strange!!!  The Read Only status shows at the bottom of a folder where it reports how many items are inside of it.

Me too...

No problem at all
I'm sorry to hear this, our QA team have been testing documents roughly this size and have reported similar issues - these are logged with our development team and we're working hard to put this right!
There certainly could be, but I too am far from the authoritative figure on iOS - AFAIK we use all available system resources, but as for the hierarchy of which processes come first I don't believe Apple publicly share this information - apologies!