Phil_rose Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 Hi all, I downloaded the free templates from the Affinity website but when I go into Designer and click open and templates and then Add Folder it seems to think that the folder is empty and it is not seeing any of the templates. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks very much, Phil PS in the screenshot the Explorer pane showing is what I see when I click Show in Explorer so you can see that it is the correct folder. Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 I don't do Windows but I have to ask if you have tried clicking on the folder named _MACOSX. Also... What file type are the files in the explorer window? Are they .afdesigner or aftemplet (not too sure of the extension at this time of day here). Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 Hi, thanks for the quick reply! I have tried the Mac folder but that is empty also. They are all afdesign files. Do they have to be actual template files to show up? It's strange that they're giving away a whole folder contemplates that does not contain any templates! Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h_d Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 I'm pretty sure that the ICONIC "templates" in the free download aren't in the new Template file format. They're ordinary Affinity Designer documents (name extension .afdesign) so I don't think they'll get picked up by the New from Template dialog in Designer 1.8. Template documents have the name extension .aftemplate and I don't believe any have been offered, for sale or free, in the Affinity store. In the meantime, you can open the ICONIC documents from File -> Open rather than from File -> New. Cheers, H Quote Affinity Photo 2.0.3, Affinity Designer 2.0.3, Affinity Publisher 2.0.3, Mac OSX 13, 2018 MacBook Pro 15" Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_rose Posted February 27, 2020 Author Share Posted February 27, 2020 Okay, that makes sense. I just opened a file that I use as a template and saved it as a template and then added the folder that it is contained within to the template dialogue and there it is. Thanks very much, I think this all makes sense now. h_d 1 Quote I like turtles! Windows 11 Sony A7iii Sony A7riii Sony A7Rii Sony RX10 Mkiii Canon G5x Mavic Mini drone A partridge A pear tree (occupied) www.philrosephoto.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 58 minutes ago, Phil_rose said: I downloaded the free templates from the Affinity website @h_d is right that the Iconic Templates are not Affinity Templates, in the 1.8 sense. They pre-date 1.8, in fact. Any files that are truly Affinity Templates would have a .aftemplate extension. Phil_rose 1 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...
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