karen Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 (edited) Hello, I am experiencing a bug on MacOs 11.0.1 with Affinity designer 1.8.6., working with a document containing multiple artboards. Suddenly, when using the move tool to try and move objects inside an artboard, it doesn't select anything if I click on things. Even using a drag motion to select with the blue selection box (not sure what it's called) doesn't work. It almost acts like if all my objects and artboards had the "lock" option activated, but it's not! The only thing I can do to select objects so I can modify or move them (that goes for shapes, text, embedded documents, images... anything) is to find the artboard in the layers panel, expand it and find the exact object I need, then by clicking on it things seem to "unlock" and objects of that artboard work as normally. The problem is that as soon as I want to select something from another artboard, the same problem occurs. I have also noticed that if I create a shape, import a pdf or create something in an artboard, it goes under another artboard in the layers panel and therefore it's not visible until I find it and move it where it belongs. Working becomes tedious like this! I hope there's a way to fix this, I have tried quitting Affinity Designer and reopening it, then I have restarted my Mac and still the problem persists I hope the explanation was clear enough! UPDATE: I have managed to work around this issue by selecting all artboards, copying them and pasting them in a new file. However, I hope this bug can be fixed so i don't have to move files whenever this happens! Edited November 23, 2020 by karen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted November 24, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 24, 2020 Hi Karen, I don't believe this is a bug - it sounds like you've disabled 'Edit All Layers' in the Layers Panel. With this turned off it will restrict your selection to the currently selected Artboard - you can change which artboard is selected, therefore changing the objects which you can select by clicking a different one in the Layers Panel. However it sounds as though you'd prefer to not have this behaviour so turning on Edit All Layers will bring it back for you. The button I'm referring to is in the bottom left of the Layers Panel - see below: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karen Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 Ohh I see, that must be it! Thank you for replying and sorry for thinking it was a bug. I was actually wondering what that button was for and now I know. Sean P 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albertjs Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 I am having a similar problem, when I try to move a text box a drop-down menu appears. This also sometimes happens when I tried to move layers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 15 hours ago, Albertjs said: I am having a similar problem, when I try to move a text box a drop-down menu appears. This also sometimes happens when I tried to move layers. Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Can you provide a screenshot showing the drop-down menu, or tell us what it says? I would usually expect that only if you're using the right mouse button instead of the left button. 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albertjs Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 (edited) I thank you for responding to my post I actually discovered my error having selected the wrong tool, I know, a newbie issue but I appreciate you getting back all the same! Edited December 5, 2020 by Albertjs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 You're welcome, Albert. Good to hear you got it sorted out 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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