Shared assets and brushes

[scdbs]

We need to be able to install Assets & Brushes to one location and then access them all in all 3 apps. Having 3 copies and taking up extra room on the HD is silly.

We could have a manger for each app to enable/disable them but one install location. Also, you wouldn't have to go through the process of installing them 3 times.

[gentletailor]

This would be great! For Windows Users this should be also available for color pallettes. It's really time consuming keeping Assets etc. up to date and synchronised across the apps.

[mackleys]

Definite +1 to this. It’s a great idea. 

[THart]

I'm just an amateur playing around with the apps.

But what I very soon realised was that it is very annoying and complicated to have a different asset library for Photo and Designer.

For example: I am in Designer and find some cool vectors from the "Stock" => put them to assets, cool. But then I also find an image which are more suitable for me being used in Photo => now I have to start Photo and manually copy the image to Photo to put it into the Assets there. => Annoying

I think already having the categories and subcategories in Assets, it might be preferable to have one single Asset library for all apps.

[ls008]

+1

I often switch between laptops and tablets and would love to be able to install once and it replicate across all apps (Photo, Publisher & Designer) and all devices automatically. For me, the wishlist would be:

• Folders and projects (sub-folders would be great too)
• Brushes
• Palettes
• Symbols
• Assets
• Fonts

[aji]

Definite +1 to this. It’s a great idea. 

[USD]

+1

[Aammppaa]

I have all 3 apps installed, in both retail and beta versions. Keeping 6 copies of everything in sync is simply ridiculous!

[ACDesignStudio]

On 4/17/2020 at 4:14 PM, ls008 said:

+1

I often switch between laptops and tablets and would love to be able to install once and it replicate across all apps (Photo, Publisher & Designer) and all devices automatically. For me, the wishlist would be:

• Folders and projects (sub-folders would be great too)
• Brushes
• Palettes
• Symbols
• Assets
• Fonts

I will be having to use my laptop for an indefinite length of time instead of my beloved desktop. When I think about all of the brushes, fonts and assets that I've added on my desktop, I feel sick thinking about having to duplicate all of this work on my laptop. Is there a way that I can copy over these downloaded brushes, fonts and assets to my laptop?

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, ACDesignStudio said:

I will be having to use my laptop for an indefinite length of time instead of my beloved desktop. When I think about all of the brushes, fonts and assets that I've added on my desktop, I feel sick thinking about having to duplicate all of this work on my laptop. Is there a way that I can copy over these downloaded brushes, fonts and assets to my laptop?

Assuming they are both Windows or both Mac, you can probably make a backup of the "user" folder on the laptop (for safety), then copy the "user" folder from the desktop to the laptop. The FAQ below tells where to find the folder. That will cover all the Affinity files such as brushes and assets. 

There may be some other useful folders in the same location as "user", but I have never tried copying them. (If you do try it, remember to back up the laptop versions first.)

Note that this will not handle fonts, as fonts are managed by the system (or your Fonts Manager, if any), not by the Affinity applications,

 

[PaulEC]

19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Assuming they are both Windows or both Mac, you can probably make a backup of the "user" folder on the laptop (for safety), then copy the "user" folder from the desktop to the laptop. 

I had a similar situation a few months back (except going the other way; laptop to desktop). I just copied the user folders from appdata and it worked perfectly.