RedBeard Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 I was having some issues with Affinity Designer running on my iPad Air 4 so I thought a fresh install might fix things. I made sure to save all my documents to the Affinity folder in files. Double checking that everything I wanted saved was in the folder, I deleted the app. But the folder is gone too now, along with everything in it! I checked the "Recently Deleted" folder and don't see any of my lost documents. Did I just lose all my documents, or is there a way to get them back? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM1 Posted January 8, 2021 Share Posted January 8, 2021 10 hours ago, RedBeard said: Did I just lose all my documents, or is there a way to get them back? If you were saving to the apps folder in iCloud they will still be there. If you saved them to the apps folder on your iPad, (ouch) you've lost them. Deleting the app removes the folder on iPad but not on iCloud. Unless you made a recent backup of your iPad? Personally I use Documents by Readdle and set up a File/folder structure then save my files to that location. This way I can have sub folders and name them to suit. RedBeard 1 Quote M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen). Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas. Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedBeard Posted January 8, 2021 Author Share Posted January 8, 2021 3 hours ago, DM1 said: If you were saving to the apps folder in iCloud they will still be there. If you saved them to the apps folder on your iPad, (ouch) you've lost them. Deleting the app removes the folder on iPad but not on iCloud. Unless you made a recent backup of your iPad? Personally I use Documents by Readdle and set up a File/folder structure then save my files to that location. This way I can have sub folders and name them to suit. Oof! That’s what I was afraid of. Thanks for the Documents app suggestion, I’ll give it a try. As a suggestion to the developers, if we could specify a linked Google Drive as the default save location too that would be very useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Mudditt Posted January 9, 2021 Share Posted January 9, 2021 19 hours ago, RedBeard said: Oof! That’s what I was afraid of. Thanks for the Documents app suggestion, I’ll give it a try. As a suggestion to the developers, if we could specify a linked Google Drive as the default save location too that would be very useful. I have stopped using any other suppliers onedrive, google, dropbox free services they all have had problems over the years and subscribe to 2TB iCloud instead. iCloud is the only service I use because of the many advantages over the other solutions especially the space they save on your device when optimise files is enabled, I have a first gen 128GB iPad Pro with 50GB free space but access to 41'000 photos occupying 256GB iCloud photos and 80GB iCloud documents. The fact that I can edit my projects via iCloud Drive on my PC or Mac versions of Affinity without having to transfer anything is brilliant. DM1 1 Quote My dad always told me, a bad workman always blames their tools…. Just waiting for Ronny Pickering….. Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on macOS Sonoma 14 on M1 Mac Mini 16GB 1TB Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 1.10 and 2.4 on Windows 10 Pro. Deceased Affinity Photo, Designer, Publisher 2.4 on M1 iPad Pro 11” on iPadOS 17.4 https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityForiPad https://www.facebook.com/groups/AffinityPhoto/ The hardest link to find https://affinity.help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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