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I just experienced a very strange bug when working with symbols: I copied a symbol, and modified some things. I then noticed that my changes also affected the original, which was unintended by me, but correct behaviour by Affinity Designer. However: The change was not undoable! I tried to undo, and Affinity Designer started undoing changes I made before duplicating the symbol, but the symbol remained in the incorrect state, messing up my layout and effectively causing data loss. Fortunately, I was able to restore an older copy from a recent backup. I tried to reproduce the problem; unfortunately, I wasn't able to. However, I did manage to flat out crash Affinity Designer. (That isn't as bad as flat out losing data though). I've attached a test file; here are the steps: Cmd+C the lower green circle (the symbol) Unfold the other symbol that contains the rectangle; unfold the circle symbol within that; select the Ellipse. Paste the symbol Try selecting/moving the green circles. Selection behaves very strangely, and, even though I can't tell the exact steps, Affinity always crashes within a few seconds. I've attached a video (towards the end, Affinity simply disappears) & crash report. I'll try to reproduce my original bug, I hope I can figure that one out. PS: I know that what I do doesn't make a lot of sense, but it happens by accident easily. crash.mov Affinity Designer_2020-11-04-232230_Julians-MacBook-Pro.crash crash.afdesign