Fastone Viewer issues

[HFNotts]

I am trying to use Fastone with Affinity but when I ask Fastone to edit in Affinity, Affinity tells me the file cannot be found.

The file is DNG so does Affinity not support DNG files?

[Alfred]

17 minutes ago, HFNotts said:

I am trying to use Fastone with Affinity

I presume you mean you’re trying to use FastStone Image Viewer with Affinity Photo. Both FSViewer and APh support DNG files, so I wouldn’t expect there to be a problem on that front. Are your image files on network storage, or are they stored locally?

[HFNotts]

Yes Faststone Image Viewer.

The files are stored on a separate hard drive connected by USB to my machine.

[Pšenda]

11 hours ago, Alfred said:

Both FSViewer and APh support DNG files

FastStone Image Viewer works with DNG files (Edit in external with APhoto). 

[HFNotts]

Thank you I know that but it doesn't answer my issue which is when I send from Faststone Viewert to Affinity, the latter doesn't see the file.  Just reports that the file cannot be found.

[Alfred]

21 hours ago, HFNotts said:

Yes Faststone Image Viewer.

The files are stored on a separate hard drive connected by USB to my machine.

 

34 minutes ago, HFNotts said:

... Affinity [Photo] doesn't see the file.  Just reports that the file cannot be found.

Does APh see the file if you copy it from your USB hard drive to local storage and work with it from there?

[HFNotts]

Affinity opens the file OK direct from the hard drive.

I want to use Faststone or something similar to see the RAW files so that I can ndecide which one(s) to work on in Affinity.

[Chris26]

10 minutes ago, HFNotts said:

Affinity opens the file OK direct from the hard drive.

I want to use Faststone or something similar to see the RAW files so that I can ndecide which one(s) to work on in Affinity.

I know you like fastone, may I suggest The Fast Viewer codec from here: http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

I reviewed 4 of the most well known image viewers over three days and ended up killing them all off.  I stumbled across this and now I can view every single file, all affinity files and dng's and psd's, even if they have multiple layers and smart objects in tact, something the other programmes failed to do. It is not an image viewer per se, but I do not need one, like you, I just want to be able to thumb through hundreds of images thumbnails at a good size, and it does this job admirably.  It is a free 15 day trial also.  

Hope it helps. 

[Pšenda]

3 hours ago, HFNotts said:

Affinity opens the file OK direct from the hard drive.

But Alfred does not ask this. Copy the DNG file to a local disk, and then try to open this copied file in APhoto using FastStone Viewer.

[Pšenda]

4 hours ago, HFNotts said:

Thank you I know that

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On 12/7/2020 at 1:05 PM, HFNotts said:

The file is DNG so does Affinity not support DNG files?

 

[AlainP]

I use Fastone Image Viewer and editing DNG files located on an external USB drive works perfectly well. While viewing the file in Image Viewer I just select "Edit with External Program". Affinity Photo then opens the file without any problem.

Maybe you could try to delete the "External Program" you already have set up in IV and install Photo again as the external program to use.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, AlainP said:

Maybe you could try to delete the "External Program" you already have set up in IV and install Photo again as the external program to use.

... It might be interesting to see the message that Affinity displays - if the parameters are not damaged and thus the file name is distorted.

On 12/7/2020 at 1:05 PM, HFNotts said:

Affinity tells me the file cannot be found.

Something like if the path contains spaces, so you need to enclose the parameter for the file name in quotation marks.

[HFNotts]

1 hour ago, Pšenda said:

But Alfred does not ask this. Copy the DNG file to a local disk, and then try to open this copied file in APhoto using FastStone Viewer.

The DNG is on an external hand drive rather than an internal one but if I had tom copy the file every time I want to use Affinity, bearijng in mind I do a lot of photography it doesn't make any sense.  However, trying it to a second drive doesn't achieve anything other tyhan Afinity not finding the file.

[HFNotts]

1 minute ago, Pšenda said:

... It might be interesting to see the message that Affinity displays - if the parameters are not damaged and thus the file name is distorted.

Something like if the path contains spaces, so you need to enclose the parameter for the file name in quotation marks.

Affinity simply says "File cannot be found" in a pop up.

[Pšenda]

3 minutes ago, HFNotts said:

but if I had tom copy the file every time I want to use Affinity, bearijng in mind I do a lot of photography it doesn't make any sense. 

??? Of course, it was not a proposal of a standard procedure, but a finding of a possible problem.

[HFNotts]

OK, thanks for the comment.  It doesn't make any difference.

Whilst I really like Affinity and would wish to support Serif as a local company to where I live with local employees, I'm finding the issues with a lack of an Image Management facility and thus reliance on other methods is a great inconvenience and tending me towards keeping with LR and PS for the convenience of LR's cataloguing.  I have well over 120,000 images in the LR catalogue and frequently need to locate ones so the lack of a cataloguing system in Affinity is pushing me away from keeping it.  I understand Serif is working on some form of image management facility but when that will become available seems well into the future.

Thank you for trying to help, I do appreciate it from everyone.