aleks97 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Hi guys, you know how the Google Chrome sync works? It syncs ALL of your settings, extensions, theme, bookmarks, and literally everything in just one account (I don't know where they store it tho, maybe Google Drive), however, when it comes to the Affinity products, we don't have something like that (or at least I can't find it). I own the 3 apps on the Microsoft Store, and I think they probably can use Google Drive, OneDrive or a cloud app, just to save all our settings, brushes, resources, gradients, colors, and everything and sync it with the 3 apps. Listen, when I bought Affinity Photo, I had to move all my settings (performance and hotkeys for example), then I bought Affinity Designer (and I had to do the same, AND download my colors/swatches I believe that's how they call them, then import to Designer and when I open Photo and make a new swatch, then I have to add the swatch to Designer and Publisher), and then I bought Publisher and I just can't do that anymore. As I said, maybe they can use our own "space" from personal accounts from Google Drive, iCloud, OneDrive or something for a backup, then a settings option so we can decide which settings or resources want to sync, and now we can enjoy. Frances Proctor, pyxelles and CanRau 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 8 hours ago, aleks97 said: you know how the Google Chrome sync works? It syncs ALL of your settings, extensions, theme, bookmarks, and literally everything in just one account Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. The 1.9 beta has implemented a function that may provide a start to the synchronization you're looking for. In this early stage is will only synchronize content (brushes, assets, etc.) that you've purchased from the Affinity Store. But we do not know where it will go in future releases. In theory, Serif could use a similar mechanism to synchronize local settings and resources via your Affinity Store account, too. CanRau, aleks97 and Frances Proctor 2 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aleks97 Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 11 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. The 1.9 beta has implemented a function that may provide a start to the synchronization you're looking for. In this early stage is will only synchronize content (brushes, assets, etc.) that you've purchased from the Affinity Store. But we do not know where it will go in future releases. In theory, Serif could use a similar mechanism to synchronize local settings and resources via your Affinity Store account, too. Omg, I can't wait!!!! Thank you for the info, sir!! It will make everything like 99,999,999 times easier!! 😄 Just to leave my feedback for the team (without knowing the exact feature but just in case), the sync HAS TO work between different Affinity products (Photo, Designer and Publisher, so if I add a new swatch to a custom palette of Photo, then it automatically adds to Designer and Publisher, or if I move a setting of Performance, then it automatically changes to the same in Designer and Publisher) AND In the same product BUT different device, so if I go to my laptop with Windows 10 just installed, and if I download Photo from the Microsoft Store (I bought all of them there), then it syncs my settings and resources. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBeard Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 I came here to say the same thing! Even if it just worked across iPad apps that would be great. Having to install the same brushes and fonts each time in Designer and Photo make it a pain in the neck to work on the same project using the two apps for their specialized tasks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 1 minute ago, RedBeard said: Having to install the same brushes and fonts each time in Designer and Photo make it a pain in the neck to work on the same project using the two apps for their specialized tasks. You only need to install fonts in one of the apps. It would be nice if the same applied to brushes and styles. RedBeard and CanRau 2 Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBeard Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 9 minutes ago, Alfred said: You only need to install fonts in one of the apps. You are right! I must have been doing something wrong when I tried this before. 🤦♂️ Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanRau Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 On 1/21/2021 at 10:28 AM, Alfred said: You only need to install fonts in one of the apps. It would be nice if the same applied to brushes and styles. Exactly that would be fabulous 🥳 Took me ages to download the around 3gb of brushes and textures of the for free offered bundles coming with 1.9 Store Sync feature in Affinity Designer on my iPad. Sadly I have to do the same again for Photo 🤯 would be nice if a DAM (Digital Assets Manager) could unify all this at least per device and then sync everything via new Store Sync 😻🚀 I hope Serif is secretly already working on that DAM 🤞 just realized that I can at least export everything from Designer than import in Photo but all that sounds like a lot of duplication on disc direkt it? It literally screams for an additional app to unify not only sync but storage as well, don’t you think? 😁 pyxelles 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 6 hours ago, CanRau said: Took me ages to download the around 3gb of brushes and textures of the for free offered bundles coming with 1.9 Store Sync feature in Affinity Designer on my iPad. Sadly I have to do the same again for Photo 🤯 You do need to install them separately, but don’t you only need to download them once? Quote Alfred Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for Windows • Windows 10 Home/Pro Affinity Designer/Photo/Publisher 2 for iPad • iPadOS 17.4.1 (iPad 7th gen) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Alfred said: You do need to install them separately, but don’t you only need to download them once? If a user downloads them manually, downloading once works. If the application is doing it, the file is downloaded, installed, and deleted. There's no way for the application to know another application may need it, and to keep the full download around. Alfred 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanRau Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 11 hours ago, Alfred said: You do need to install them separately, but don’t you only need to download them once? 7 hours ago, walt.farrell said: If a user downloads them manually, downloading once works. If the application is doing it, the file is downloaded, installed, and deleted. There's no way for the application to know another application may need it, and to keep the full download around. As stated in my reply I can export the brushes/assets and then import, that’sa workaround to fix double downloads, still they’ll take up double the disc space even though they’re the same, which I believe could be solved if both apps could access storage of each other or have a separate assets app where all brushes, fonts, assets etc are stored and the main apps access them from 🥳 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 5, 2021 Share Posted February 5, 2021 1 minute ago, CanRau said: which I believe could be solved if both apps could access storage of each other or have a separate assets app where all brushes, fonts, assets etc are stored and the main apps access them from Yes, but that's not available and Serif hasn't managed to do it. 2 minutes ago, CanRau said: I can export the brushes/assets and then import, that’sa workaround to fix double downloads, Yes, but that's a lot of manual work just to avoid some network traffic. Might make sense if you're on a metered connection, I suppose. Or something with extremely low bandwidth. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanRau Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 8 hours ago, walt.farrell said: Yes, but that's not available and Serif hasn't managed to do it. Yes, but that's a lot of manual work just to avoid some network traffic. Might make sense if you're on a metered connection, I suppose. Or something with extremely low bandwidth. Yea that’s what I meant by “it took ages” 😅 anyways, just synced them in Photo as well, yet the assets are not showing ups as expected, assets studio is completely empty 😳🤔 I for example synced the “Sunlight Effect Overlays by Paper Farms” which came for free with 1.9, which is showing as expected in Designer, but not in Photo 🥺 what am I doing wrong? Maybe I should open another topic for this, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 6 hours ago, CanRau said: anyways, just synced them in Photo as well, yet the assets are not showing ups as expected, assets studio is completely empty 😳🤔 I for example synced the “Sunlight Effect Overlays by Paper Farms” which came for free with 1.9, which is showing as expected in Designer, but not in Photo 🥺 what am I doing wrong? Try clicking on the hamburger (settings) icon for the Assets panel, and adding a category. Then check the category pulldown and see if they have now appeared. CanRau 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanRau Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 That did the trick 🥳 Thanks a lot 🙏 Interestingly deleting the just created category hides the synced assets again.. just a fyi walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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