tantramar Posted December 24, 2019 Posted December 24, 2019 Under macOS 10.15 Catalina (and, iirc) under 10.14 Mojave, the macOS Desktop sorts Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo files under “Other” when using Stacks — rather than under “Images”, where it puts .png, .jpg, .ai, & .psd files. Is this something that needs to be addressed within the apps? I can’t find anything that suggests a user-editable way to update this. Quote
Dan C Posted December 27, 2019 Posted December 27, 2019 Hi tantramar AFAIK, all Stacks are controlled by Mac OS and we have no choice as to which Stack type Affinity documents are sorted into. By default, Mac OS will use the file format type to group your files, and unfortunately '.afphoto' is not a recognised "Image" type (and arguably shouldn't be, as it's a document format). You can change the way your Stacks are created and sorted through Mac OS, but there is no option currently to force a certain format into a particular Stack, my apologies! Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 27, 2019 Posted December 27, 2019 9 minutes ago, Dan C said: and unfortunately '.afphoto' is not a recognised "Image" type (and arguably shouldn't be, as it's a document format). Presumably that argument would lead one to conclude that .ai and .psd files shouldn't be considered images by MacOS, either Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1
Dan C Posted December 27, 2019 Posted December 27, 2019 6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Presumably that argument would lead one to conclude that .ai and .psd files shouldn't be considered images by MacOS, either Agreed! I believe this is a decision made by MacOS however and isn't something the user can control, perhaps this is something our developers can check with Apple. Of course it's only my opinion - as I can certainly see the practical benefits of having these files sorted with your images, but personally I prefer to keep exported/finished images separate from documents. walt.farrell 1 Quote
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