f-stop Posted October 23, 2019 Share Posted October 23, 2019 Hi. Has anyone experienced problems with files opening as "Read Only?" I can work on a file, let's say from RAW, do a "save as" and close it. When I re-open it, there have been many occasions when the file opens as read only and I have to do another "save as." I should point out that I've set the security system so that I have no problem with editing and so on. Any ideas/suggestions will be gratefully received. Many thanks. f-stop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greyfox Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 14 hours ago, f-stop said: there have been many occasions when the file opens as read only Where are you saving the files to ? Quote Intel i7-10700 Gen10 CPU, 32GB RAM, Geforce GTX 1660 OC 6GB Windows 10 Pro 22H2, 1x 1TB M.2 NVMe, 1 x 2TB M.2 NVMe. Affinity APh, APu, ADe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-stop Posted October 24, 2019 Author Share Posted October 24, 2019 Hi. Thanks for the response. The files are being saved to my secondary internal drive. It has just happened again. I opened the file, did an alteration, saved it with no problem, made a further adjustment and it would only save if I "saved as," which apart from being annoying, means I end up with copies of the same image all with slightly different titles. Best regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 24, 2019 Share Posted October 24, 2019 Mac or Windows? And what do you mean by setting the security system so you shouldn't have any problem editing? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver06 Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 Hi, This may not be related but needing to use "save as" as the file is read only has happened quite a few times to me in general not just when using Affinity. For me, this problems occurs on my Windows computer due to a bug in Preview Pane. It occurs if you have preview pane turned on when opening a file from Windows Explorer. In this case, the file will open as read only and will not let you just save. You need to use save as. If I realise what has happened, I close the file before working in it and go back to Windows Explorer and close Preview Pane (under View menu) and reopen the file with no issue. I now make it a habit to turn off Preview Pane when I have finished previewing files so I avoid this issue. I hope this helps if it is the cause. Good luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-stop Posted December 7, 2019 Author Share Posted December 7, 2019 Many thanks for the suggestions and sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I will most certainly check out the preview pane and see if that makes a difference. Once gain, many thanks for the advise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meenakshi.rao Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 ever since i updated my affinity publisher after a prompt, i am unable to save a downloaded file. the file shows up as read only and even the option of save as is not working can someone help? urgent. and it is windows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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