File server access inside Affinity Photo for iPad

[fhotografhy]

Affinity Photo is a great app on the iPad and on Windows, but working together with both platforms is not so easy. 
You could use iCloud to sync your files, but it is very slow when working with large files and regular changes. Therefore it would be nice to be able to access file servers (FTP or SMB) directly inside the Affinity Photo App. This feature would be very cool and I would also pay something for this feature as an In-App-Transaction.

[Hoby]

I would like this as well. Everything on the iPad version gets copied into a local store, which is great if you want to make a local library out of everything but bad if you want to work on random files from elsewhere, and keep them there.

In addition to the FTP and SMB suggested, I'd really like Mac file sharing to be supported and transient access to services like Mega, Box, Google Drive, Onedrive, etc.

[yougin]

On 1/9/2021 at 8:57 AM, Hoby said:

I would like this as well. Everything on the iPad version gets copied into a local store, which is great if you want to make a local library out of everything but bad if you want to work on random files from elsewhere, and keep them there.

In addition to the FTP and SMB suggested, I'd really like Mac file sharing to be supported and transient access to services like Mega, Box, Google Drive, Onedrive, etc.

the requested features would make your apps for ipad real PRO products. i can imagine this feature would be the gamechanger ting. i am waiting for it very very badly. since i have to work on mulitple hadware (macbook, wondows workstation and ipad pro for sketching) - yes i had to buy the software for all this differnt platforms :D - but anyway. a reasonable workaround to work from server would make it so much easier.  currently its a very big pain point.

 

[aronw95]

yes, it is indeed true that working cross platform across mac/ios and windows is quite difficult. because, apple being apple has made it very difficult to share files across other platforms.