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When I open AD Help, the table of Contents sidebar is strangely formatted, with the following problems: • Some exposure triangles do not match up with the help subtopics. • Some subtopics are always expanded as if I had clicked on their parent topic & I cannot collapse them. • The Table of Contents sidebar does not disappear when I click on many (but not all) topics, obscuring the left part of the topic unless I drag the window's width to a very large size. • In a few topic pages images are blank, showing only the OS X question mark in a blue box 'placeholder' icon one normally sees when an image can't be loaded on a web page. On at least one of those pages (for the Interface visual reference) moving the pointer over where a UI element should be shown works, but only for some UI elements. • For some topics, depending on if I try to select them from the Table of Contents sidebar after selecting some other topic, the correct text will be displayed, but with the image(s) from the previous topic. This is hard to explain, so please refer to the two screen shots & feel free to ask for clarification on anything still unclear. I have tried the following to resolve this with no effect: 1. Reset (clear) everything on starting up AD (the control key launch) 2. Manually trashing ~/Library/Containers/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner/Data/Library/Preferences/com.seriflabs.affinitydesigner.plist & even /Applications/Affinity Designer.app/Contents/Resources/AffinityDesigner.help/Contents 3. Running the OS X El Capitan Disk First Aid on the startup disk, & Onyx's Repair Disk Permissions (which the El Cap version of Disk Utility lacks). 4. Rebuilding the Help system with Onyx 5. Trashing /Applications/Affinity Designer.app & downloading a new copy from the Mac App Store. 6. Multiple restarts of my iMac, between each of the previous steps & various combinations thereof. 7. Verbal curses, threats, & other irrational outbursts aimed at the hardware, Apple, Affinity, & other entities that I know can't hear me but make me feel (slightly) better about not being able to fix this on my own. No other Help window behaves this way, including the one for Affinity Photo, so it seems to be something affecting only AD, but I have no clue what it might be. Any suggestions for what to try next?