F J Posted April 21, 2020 Posted April 21, 2020 I wound like to set Affinity as a file association with my camera format in Adobe Bridge. However, when I look in MS explorer under programs, Affinity does not appear. Can anyone help? Many thanks. F J Quote
walt.farrell Posted April 21, 2020 Posted April 21, 2020 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @F J. Did you purchase Photo from the Affinity Store, or from the Microsoft Store? If you purchased from the Microsoft Store, the application is hidden away by Microsoft in a folder that you normally can't see. Unfortunately, beyond that I cannot help. 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
F J Posted April 22, 2020 Author Posted April 22, 2020 19 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @F J. Did you purchase Photo from the Affinity Store, or from the Microsoft Store? If you purchased from the Microsoft Store, the application is hidden away by Microsoft in a folder that you normally can't see. Unfortunately, beyond that I cannot help. Thank you. I did purchase through MS Store. Does anyone know where the application is hidden? Thanks again. Quote
emmrecs01 Posted April 22, 2020 Posted April 22, 2020 1 hour ago, F J said: I did purchase through MS Store. Does anyone know where the application is hidden? Yes, the installation location is C:\ProgramFiles\WindowsApps\Affinity\... but that is a "hidden" folder for which you have to gain Administrator permission via the Security tab. There is a very useful utility TakeOwnershipEx which will allow you to access this folder (by changing permissions) and, after you have completed whatever you need to do, will also enable the resetting of those permissions to the Windows default. However, having done that and gained access I'm not at all sure whether this will actually allow you to set up the file associations you wished to do. HTH Jeff Quote Win 11 Pro, intel i7 14700, NVidia GTX 4060, 32G RAM, intel UHD 770. Long-time user of Serif products, chiefly PagePlus and PhotoPlus, but also WebPlus, CraftArtistProfessional and DrawPlus. Delighted to be using Affinity Designer, Photo, and now Publisher, version 1 and now version 2. iPad Pro (12.9") (iOS 18.2) running Affinity Photo and Designer version 1 and all three version 2 apps.
anolddog Posted May 8, 2020 Posted May 8, 2020 Maybe I misundstand your question but if you go to file associations in Bridge preferences you can add Affinity.exe (with its associated path) to any file extension. Bridge will then show Affiniti as an alternative to Photoshop when you go to 'Open with' on right clicking the thumbnail. Quote
F J Posted May 8, 2020 Author Posted May 8, 2020 I think Jeff is correct. When I browse associations in Bridge. Affinity Photo doesn't show anywhere in Windows Explorer.It must be in a hidden folder because it was purchased through Windows Store. Thank you for your advice. Quote
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