losing all data and artboards

[Mexadon]

I have bad experience of loosing all changes when switching from Affinity Designer to APhoto or APublisher. Its already second time I had by accident clicked on edit in Photo. After denying save in Photo (to get back into APublisher) all my artboards in ADesigner were gone. Today it happened again and all my DAY work is gone except first artboard.  Is it standard behaviour how these 3 apps interact or is it really bad bug?

All apps are last versions

Edited May 25, 2020 by Mexadon

[Sean P]

Hi Mexadon,

Sorry for the delay in responding. When sending back to the other application are you still using File > Edit in Application or are you just closing the application to exit the program? Be aware that when using Edit In it will close the file down and then re-open it in the other application, so if you don't save you will lose any changes.

If this is still reproducible for you, would you be able to get a screen recording that demonstrates the behaviour please?

[Mexadon]

Hi Sean this disaster (loosing full day work even with autosave) happened twice and I'm now really very careful when switching between AD /AP. I had AD open and accidentally open "Edit in Photo"  when this happened I have just closed AP as I didn't want to save it as adphoto file but project "somemywork.afdesign" just vanish from HD and I believe that was saved before. Now I just choosing "edit in ..."  when switching between apps. I was really hard way lesson.  It will be nice when it come to these situation be able close AP app and reopen it in AD (and vice versa - back to app you come from). Even as modal dialog  option will be nice. 

Have a good one

Stan

 

Edited June 12, 2020 by Mexadon

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, Mexadon said:

It will be nice when it come to these situation be able close AP app and reopen it in AD (and vice versa - back to app you come from). Even as modal dialog  option will be nice. 

If you make that mistake, do not close Photo. Just use File > Save, or File > Edit in Designer.

[Mexadon]

As I wrote before this is how I do it now. Have a good one

[Incoming Fax]

I just had exactly this occur and lost work. Sincere thanks for posting, @Mexadon. You helped confirm that what I thought could not possibly be so clumsy and unintuitive an implementation is exactly that. This capability should behave differently.

Walt?

 

[walt.farrell]

38 minutes ago, Incoming Fax said:

You helped confirm that what I thought could not possibly be so clumsy and unintuitive an implementation is exactly that. This capability should behave differently.

I'm just a user like you, but to me it seems intuitive. File > Edit in... sends the file to a different application. When you're done in that application, you need to do something. That's either File > Save or File > Edit in... again.

(The first time I ended up with an application with no files open it was a bit of a surprise, but it was easy to figure out.)

[Incoming Fax]

Nothing if not reliable.