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Dear affinity-Team, while working on a specific file in Publisher V2 the message appeared that the file seems to be damaged and needs to be closed immediately. Since closing the file it has not been possible to open the File. Whether in Publisher V2 or Designer V2. While trying to open the file an error message occors: "file seems to be damaged". Wich possibilities are there to recover the file? Do you have any mesures to recover it? What needs to be done to prevent this error in future? Please Help. Sure I will send the file over to you if there is any possibility of recreating it. Thanks in advance, Farin

Hi there. Not sure if I can find help with it, but want to share my frustrating experience. While working with mutilayered file in Affinity Photo 1.8.5.703 on Win10, I established 3 correcting layers in separate folders - Shadows Highlights Halftone. Shadows and Halftone folders had corecting layers inside (1 and 4 on screenshot) and Highlights has a filled with yellow paint layer in soft-light mode with mask inside (2 and 3 on screenshot) Last time I worked with this file was yesterday. I checked the results of my work and saved it. But when openinig this file today I found the layers 1 and 4 was completely black, all hand painted mask disappeared, layer 3 was light gray instead of yellow like before. But mask (3) is ok. I exclude the possibility of accidental or malicious damage - nobody switched on my laptop since yesterday, I checked this layers before closing and I can't believe that I could damage (eg fill with black) accidentally all three layers simultaneously. So, I assume there is a some bug in program. PS I tried to find any possibility to restore previous versions of file and found that there is no autobackup option in Affinity, although there are user's requests of this option on forum from 2018. Instead of that there are recommendations to save manually. Well, thanks a lot. .

I'm not sure if this should be bug or should be filed somewhere else. I go to save the file and get an error message about the file could not be saved, shutting down. I go to open it again and now the file is damaged. This happens randomly but enough that I keep multiple files because it happens often enough to cause fits. The file is local running on MacOS Catalina in Publisher 1.7.3 on a 16" Macbook pro. The file is local rather on a server. thanks for any insight! PC Bicent Art Boards - damaged.afpub