R C-R Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 Is there any way to set the toolbar to use the same custom settings I had in 1.7.3? I have Time Machine backups of everything in ~/Library/Application Support/Affinity Publisher (there because I bought APu from the Affinity Store) & in the ~/Library/Containers/ equivalents for AD & AP (because I bought them from the Mac App Store). Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
carl123 Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 ??? Are you saying that upgrading to 1.8 did not preserve your custom toolbar layout? If so, isn't that a bug? On Windows upgrading to 1.8 preserved my Toolbar customizations Quote To save time I am currently using an automated AI to reply to some posts on this forum. If any of "my" posts are wrong or appear to be total b*ll*cks they are the ones generated by the AI. If correct they were probably mine. I apologise for any mistakes made by my AI - I'm sure it will improve with time.
walt.farrell Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 The update to 1.8 is certainly supposed to retain settings. I wonder if this is the same bug referenced below, though, which affects all 1.8 apps purchased from the Mac App Store: 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
R C-R Posted February 26, 2020 Author Posted February 26, 2020 44 minutes ago, carl123 said: Are you saying that upgrading to 1.8 did not preserve your custom toolbar layout? Yes, I am saying that none of the custom toolbar layouts I had (laboriously) set up in 1.7.3 were preserved in 1.8, not in any of the three apps & (I think, still checking) not in any of the personas. Every one of them was reset to the application defaults. At least part of this was probably the result of the change to the 'unified' toolbar for macOS versions Mojave (which I run) & Catalina, first introduced in the Mac 1.8 betas. That is at least partially understandable: in 1.7.3 on Macs (any macOS version) the window control buttons & document title (or "untitled" or whatever) were above the application toolbar in a separate header. In the macOS 'unified' toolbar both of those items have been moved into the app toolbar. Now that I think more about that, because I had set up the 1.8 beta toolbars in Mojave, I probably have those settings stored in some *.propcol or *.dat file still on my Mac, so those would be the ones I would want to reuse in the 1.8 retail versions, assuming that won't break anything. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
loukash Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 11 minutes ago, R C-R said: none of the custom toolbar layouts I had (laboriously) set up in 1.7.3 were preserved in 1.8, not in any of the three apps & (I think, still checking) not in any of the personas. Every one of them was reset to the application defaults. Same here. 32 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I wonder if this is the same bug referenced below, though, which affects all 1.8 apps purchased from the Mac App Store APho & AD are from the Apple app store, APu from the Serif store. Mac OS X El Capitan. Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
PaulEC Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 Of course, if the Affinity apps had the simple ability to save and restore custom layouts this would not be a problem. I remember when I first raised this, several years ago, some **** saying that this wasn't needed as they would stay as I wanted them unless I deliberately reset them myself!!! Quote Acer XC-895 : Core i5-10400 Hexa-core 2.90 GHz : 32GB RAM : Intel UHD Graphics 630 : Windows 11 Home Affinity Publisher 2 : Affinity Photo 2 : Affinity Designer 2 : (latest release versions) on desktop and iPad "Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance." (GBS)
R C-R Posted February 26, 2020 Author Posted February 26, 2020 39 minutes ago, loukash said: APho & AD are from the Apple app store, APu from the Serif store. Mac OS X El Capitan. I bought AP & AD from the Mac App Store & APu from the Affinity Store, so while it sort of makes sense that because I am running Mojave my toolbar settings could not be preserved, it does not for you because the 1.8 versions do not AFAIK use the 'unified' toolbar in any macOS version older than Mojave. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
RNKLN Posted February 26, 2020 Posted February 26, 2020 In my case the settings for the various studios are kept from 1.7. Same for the background grey level i've set in Preferences. Everything else (toolbars, tools) got reset. R C-R 1 Quote Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.5) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.5.X versions
R C-R Posted February 26, 2020 Author Posted February 26, 2020 3 hours ago, RNKLN said: In my case the settings for the various studios are kept from 1.7. Same for the background grey level i've set in Preferences. Everything else (toolbars, tools) got reset. Now that you mention it, my Tools panel layout was partially reset -- it still shows 2 columns & at least some of the tools are still in the same relative positions as I had used in 1.7, but all the horizontal dividers I added went missing, in all Personas in all 3 apps. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.7 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
RNKLN Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 Yes, R C-R, that's also the situation i encountered; it was just the dividers. Quote Affinity Photo - Affinity Designer - Affinity Publisher | macOS Sonoma (14.5) on 16GB MBP14 2021 with 2.5.X versions
chilacho Posted February 27, 2020 Posted February 27, 2020 On 2/26/2020 at 5:48 PM, PaulEC said: Of course, if the Affinity apps had the simple ability to save and restore custom layouts this would not be a problem. I remember when I first raised this, several years ago, some **** saying that this wasn't needed as they would stay as I wanted them unless I deliberately reset them myself!!! Yes, this is so frustrating, as they sometimes also get reset when the app crashes. It would be nice if all Affinity apps could save the layout like Adobe with the possibility to have also several layouts. I use several layouts for example if I’m working only on the MacBook Pro (w/t my second screen) , then I change to the "small screen" layout, otherwise I use the "double screen layout". PaulEC 1 Quote
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