Affinity rewrites my abr files to affinity files

[Mateprsk]

Okay, so since many information I found on the forums about Affinity designer supporting abr brushes, I told my self to try it out, so I did. But after I did, and it was a pretty bad experience, I told my self to continue my work in photoshop. As I wanted to load my brushes, I noticed, that they are not "abr" files anymore, but they are affinity files. Now I really hope it didn't changed their quality and I can role them back since they are unique custom brushes, and I really don't want to have any kind of complications anymore, since I already requested a refund for your product. Anyways, what I do now? Do I have to delete them, find them, and than do the whole process from the start or you have a solution for my problem, what works like in 5 minutes so I don't lose my deadline.

[wonderings]

I would try simply changing the extension name of the file. If Affinity is not actually converting you should be ok. If it is converting the file then you might have issues. Are you on a Mac? If so, do you have a TimeMachine backup? If you have that you could go back to the day before you tried it and restore your brushes from before you tried using with Affinity. 

[Mateprsk]

1 minute ago, wonderings said:

I would try simply changing the extension name of the file. If Affinity is not actually converting you should be ok. If it is converting the file then you might have issues. Are you on a Mac? If so, do you have a TimeMachine backup? If you have that you could go back to the day before you tried it and restore your brushes from before you tried using with Affinity. 

No, I have a laptop with windows. No I don't want to manually do anything anymore like changing the name of the file and so on, but I want that one software to don't do stuff I didn't gave access to it to do so, especially if the file wasn't designed for it's use but I used it because some promises, since the quality was horrible when I tried it out, and not all the brushes were working anyways.

Okay I have some backup of my windows, but all this means I have to be awake like all night to finish my drawing until the morning. If the windows backup will solve my issue. And this is really an issue if the program overwrite these files. I just hope that after windows backup, and so on, I will not notice that the brushes basically were modified and I lose their actually super high quality.

For the Affinity developers my advice is that they should super focus on this issue, and other issues also. Since it's a small company, I was buying directly their software in sign of my support in this rat race with huge global companies, but to be honest I am getting to be really disappointed. Like besides the fact that Designers vector tools are super limited, I can't even use vector brushes for real, their raster "persona" is like doesn't offer quality, and now I have this issue also. I really can't use it like this for professional work. Now for hobby it is a good software, but only for beginners. If you do profi work for a hobby, again it's not okay, since you will need to buy a lot of stuff what will not give you good quality neither on the vector, neither on the raster persona.

My only hope is that I get my refund. I mean sure it was super cheap, but still, I'm doing this for a living, I'm not doing this for my own entertainment, so a few euro's here could be used in a productive way somewhere else.

[wonderings]

Yes it sucks that it happened but it did. Now you need to look at how you fix it and get going. Manually changing a brush extension is simple and easy, like changing the name of a folder on your desktop. 

To ditch the apps because you do not like that it changed an extension is a bit premature in my opinion. Not sure why you would need to be up all night when you could simply try fixing the brush extension. It is new software, are they ready for pro work? Not for me, but they are getting there. You have an option to try and make a real simple fix and get back to work, seems like you are more keen on complaining about how things should be rather then deal with the unfortunate situation at hand. Personally for work I make money at I am sticking with Adobe, it is an industry standard. You always have risks when converting something made for one software in another. 

[IanSG]

42 minutes ago, Mateprsk said:

I noticed, that they are not "abr" files anymore, but they are affinity files.

Are you sure?  What file extension are they?  It's my guess that the files are unchanged but Windows has set the file association of .abr files to AD, in which case you can right click on one of them and reset it to whatever you choose.

[Mateprsk]

9 minutes ago, IanSG said:

Are you sure?  What file extension are they?  It's my guess that the files are unchanged but Windows has set the file association of .abr files to AD, in which case you can right click on one of them and reset it to whatever you choose.

yes, I restarted the p.c., I looked up the file properties, and it's still like it. Okay no matter, I found them again on one of my external hard drives, so I have the backup, I don't want to try them for hours and check if they kept to be the same or not. But it's good to know that it happens, so if more users will come here with the same issue.

[Move Along People]

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[Mateprsk]

27 minutes ago, wonderings said:

Yes it sucks that it happened but it did. Now you need to look at how you fix it and get going. Manually changing a brush extension is simple and easy, like changing the name of a folder on your desktop. 

To ditch the apps because you do not like that it changed an extension is a bit premature in my opinion. Not sure why you would need to be up all night when you could simply try fixing the brush extension. It is new software, are they ready for pro work? Not for me, but they are getting there. You have an option to try and make a real simple fix and get back to work, seems like you are more keen on complaining about how things should be rather then deal with the unfortunate situation at hand. Personally for work I make money at I am sticking with Adobe, it is an industry standard. You always have risks when converting something made for one software in another. 

okay, if it's just a name, or not related to the affinity software but for windows it self is another storry. But now I really don't have time to check all this, after that to check each brush if they didn't changes in quality and so on. I found a kind of backup what is fast, I will use it, and that was it. But this is not my only issue. My main issue why I asked for a refund was that they promised a vector based software, I bought it, and it's a raster software with let's say more editable vectors than what photoshop has. But what if I do my work with like for real, fully editable vector brushes? What I do? Work not in two but 3 apps? That doesn't has any sense. And after that when I discovered that neither the raster part is not working well, I really can't use it like this.

Sure, if it will have an evolution what will fix these issues, I will be the happiest man to buy it again, and not to pay rent for another huge corporation for the same job. What in my country it means that you pay as much as a monthly rent for a room. But if I can't work with it, I can't work with it, so than I wait another let's say 5 years, maybe in that time they take this in consideration, because how I scroll over the different forums, I'm not the only man saying this. If you do a vector app, do a vector app man, it's not working in another way like "yeah man It's vector but it's basically raster but vector" than you say okay, you skip than your raster app, try to use this for that reason because you again had some promises, and besides the fact that it is not working well, like not even big resolutions. I mean if I want to simply draw for my entertainment I have another x number of apps I can use it for like free. I need this for work, for like from what I buy the food, the rent, the all the stuff.

[IanSG]

24 minutes ago, Mateprsk said:

But it's good to know that it happens,

Good to know that what happens - what file extension are your .abr files now?

[walt.farrell]

It sounds like you have Windows configured so it does not show you file extensions. In that case, all you have to tell you about a file is its name, and whichever icon Windows wants to show, which is usually the last application that registered itself to handle that kind of file.

The solution to that is to tell Windows to show you the file extensions. Then you have an additional piece of information, and would see that you still have .abr files, but Windows has decided that an Affinity application should be the default for opening them.

If you don't like that, you can tell Windows to pick a different application.