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Hello everyone, I'm facing an issue with an ".afpub" file with around 40 pages. The issues started a few days ago where the loading time was abnormally high, and it often crashed when I made changes to my ".afdesing" file which was linked. Today I tried opening the file, but I had not luck, so after multiple minutes of waiting for the document to load I had to eventually kill it via task manager. After Ctrl + Click on Affinity Publisher to "Clear user defaults" and "Don't restore window & documents", I was able to open the file but a message showed up "Linked Resource Changed": Also, all of the instances of the linked file now look blurry: What I've tried so far: Setting "Automatically update linked files resources when modified externally" -> App is not responding, and document never loads... Open resource manager and clicked "Update" -> App is not responding... Open resource manager and clicked "Replace File" -> Kinda worked, but everything was totally messed up Deleting the ".afdesign" file and clicking "Yes" on the "Do you want to re-link missing file" dialog -> App is not responding... The file I used as an initial template was created using earlier version of Publisher, probably the version 1.7, if that helps. Something weird is that when I click on "Edit document", the file opens just fine inside the Publisher. Looks like only the linked document previews are the issue. Is there something I could do to solve this issue? I'm currently trying replacing each image by clicking "Replace document". Thank you for your help in advance!

I am using version 1.8.3 and unfortunately I am near a deadline. The problem seems to be file-related. For me it seems to be related to missing resources somehow. During my work on this file I always got a message when opening the file, that some resources are missing. I did not care because it seem to have been images I was not needing anyway. Then suddenly out of nothing publisher just closed itself. This keeps happening now with the file always a few seconds after I open it. When I go into the resources dialog now it won´t crash. But trying to relink the missing resources does not work. I added the two images it keeps on asking for before it crashes but no success. I am doing this to the two images that seem to be missing, resource manager closes..1,2,3 Publisher crashes. But it first appeared out of nothing. Just when I added 12 blank pages and linked them with master pages. The document has 51 pages in total. I also tried to embed all images. No success... Publisher crashes after doing it. If in the dialog manage resources I chose NO, it will crash. If I choose "manage resources" it will crash, too. So I think it has to do with the missing images. But as I said... the fact that they are missing was not a problem the last few days. I also tried to rename my resources folder. When opening the file it will now ask me for another images that is missing. I´ll show the new destination. Then the other two images mentioned above are asked for. I show him this locatio, too.... Publisher crashes. I tried to open the file in Affinity Designer. It works. I deleted all missing images. When trying to save the file Affinity Designer crashes.... I tried to open an earlier version of the file. Some hours before it first crashed. Same result. Even more hours before this... no crash Any ideas?