An oddity in collecting and opening from one computer to another

[heningstepfield]

Hi all!

I started a publisher project on my laptop....it grew, so I collected my resources and opened it up on my desktop - all worked fine (all looked fine)

Although I have been saving every few days to a flash drive (a copy of collected resources and the affinity file) I popped back to my laptop this morning in the attempt to open it up,

as that is the machine (while travelling) that I intend to complete the project on.

But when i opened it on my lap top - the images were all low rez

hum????

any thoughts would be greatly appreciated

(is there a quality toggle somewhere  that my digital elbow hit while I was pouring a perfect glass of red wine, in anticipation of the show!)

Just checking!!

Thanks

Cheers

[walt.farrell]

What is the folder structure on flash drive, and where in that structure is the .afpub file and the linked files?

Have you ensured that the flash drive has the same drive letter (e.g., D:) on both the desktop and laptop?

You should have gotten a popup when opening the .afpub file telling you of the missing images, and offering you some choices to fix the problem. At that point, responding Yes would be the best approach, as it would allow you to find one file and let Publisher find any others in the same directory automatically.

[wonderings]

Are you sure the resources are copied over and not just aliases? Not sure how common that is anymore, but used to happen a fair bit in days of old. 

[heningstepfield]

Thanks for this!!!

interesting???? How would I check - is there a 'toggle' on that

 (ha ha - now that would explain it!)

[heningstepfield]

Hi Walt!

I have everything copied into one folder, including the Publisher project file.

Upon opening, it does warn of a missing file - and as you indicate, as soon as I locate it, all resources are carried into the collected transferred project on my laptop.

I suspect that as I can open the file (albeit with low rez images - at least most of them, some look OK??) this ensures that drive naming may not be a factor in my situation (ha  ha - although I have been wrong before!)

Now what's interesting is when I export a pdf, from affinity, from my desktop - it shows fine on my laptop,

but when I export the 'collected' project from my laptop - it displays as a low rez as affinity project on my laptop

 

seems to point that the collection is the area of disturbance

All good - just part of the learning curve - I love the program...I just hope it loves me back on the issue of quality of display!!

 

Cheers

 

 

 

 

 

[walt.farrell]

46 minutes ago, heningstepfield said:

I have everything copied into one folder, including the Publisher project file.

That may be your problem. Try it with a folder, say A, containing the .afpub file and a folder B. Then with everything else in B.

 

47 minutes ago, heningstepfield said:

I suspect that as I can open the file (albeit with low rez images - at least most of them, some look OK??) this ensures that drive naming may not be a factor in my situation (ha  ha - although I have been wrong before!)

I do not think it shows that at all, and if the drive naming were the same you shouldn't have the problem you are seeing
But you can confirm for sure by opening File Explorer and looking at My Computer, and seeing where the drive is mounted on each machine.

 

[heningstepfield]

Hi - restarting the lap top - then I'll dive in as you have directed (fingers crossed!)

[heningstepfield]

Hi,

on my desktop (hi quality visuals), I have both the media and the affinity file in the same folder on my D drive

on my laptop I have copied the project and the affinity file to my D drive into two separate folders 

placing the affinity file in it's own folder 'B'

placing resources in it own folder 'A'

 

When I launch - I get a message of a missing file - so I track it to 'A' - then nothing else was happening.....

.....until I ran an errand for 40 minutes - upon return, I came back to a full rez laptop screen of one image..but all the other images for my pages are blank

 

as such,  I think I'm tossing more than my laptop's 12 gigs of ram can handle (desktop has 32 gigs - function well)

 

I believe I have a capacity issue with my laptop

Sorry for not understanding this potential earlier.

I very much appreciate the help you both have offered!

I hope to help out a future newbie, much like myself, someday.

Thanks!!

Cheers

S