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Sort .afphoto & .afdesign files under “Images” in macOS Desktop stacks?


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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.

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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!

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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 :)

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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.

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Many thanks :)

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