Display Posted July 1, 2020 Share Posted July 1, 2020 Hello, I've been installing looaads of brushes/palettes/assets for Designer and now realised I need to copy it all over again for Photo (and possibly Publisher) which would triple my user folders to over 6GB with duplicated data! It's a waste of NVME drive space firstly, but my main gripe is that it's become quite a chore to manage 3 sets of identical data across the Affinity apps... So I was wondering, am I able to use a symbolic link for the "user" folder across Designer/Photo/Publisher? e.g. C:\Documents\Affinity\Designer\1.0\user (original data) C:\Documents\Affinity\Photo\1.0\user (symbolic link from Designer) C:\Documents\Affinity\Publisher\1.0\user (symbolic link from Designer) I've tried it and its working, I'm just worried if there's something I'm over looking that will cause future conflicts or corruption? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted July 10, 2020 Staff Share Posted July 10, 2020 It sounds like a good idea, to share certain resources between the apps to save on HDD space but not something we recommend. As each app is running slightly different code as they aren't built together it could cause issues. It may be worth posting in the Feature Requests section to have a shared resource folder between the apps for certain things like brushes, assets, palettes etc. Old Bruce 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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