Affinity Designer does not properly restore snapshot when symbols are used

[hsxc]

I created a snapshot of a document that made extensive use of symbols. When I tried restoring the snapshot a bit later, the layer hierarchy changed as it should have, but the symbols remained unchanged.

I'll be happy to provide a source file over email if that would help with debugging.

[Sean P]

Hi @hsxc

I've created you a link to our internal Dropbox account. If you could upload your source file I'll take a look!
https://www.dropbox.com/request/EDOepn6cO9mbTnqJF6nU

Thanks

[clemens.holleis]

Hello!
I encountered the same issue. After a short test it looks like the data inside a symbol are not respected / stored by a snapshot- only position and scale of symbols are.
Let's say you are taking snapshots as milestones in a design process this can lead to huge problems.

Imagine:

• designing a file using symbols
• You create a snapshot like "Open Data" to be able to roll back to this state to extract elements or tweak the design once again. 
• You now go through cleaning up the document: delete some stuff, rasterize data inside the symbols and so on
• Now you create a snapshot "Clean For Export"

If you now want to restore the "Open Data" snapshot you are screwed because all contents of the symbols will be rasterized in this state of the document too.

I first recognized this issue in a file for an app screen design where I had 9 snapshots for different states- needless to say these are not very usable anymore since the symbols like the navbar and icons got edited in the older snapshot versions.

Are there plans to fix this behavior?

Thanks and
best regards,
Clemens


 

[Hans Dampf]

Same error here: made snapshot, changed some colors of a symbol and while trying to restore the first snapshot, it restores for a few milliseconds then immediatly switches back to the last changes while the history thumbs show the correct restore.

BTW I'm on iPadOS 18.3.1 with Affinity Designer 2.5.7.2948 and it's 2025-02-13...