Jowday Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 Significantly bigger than all other prefs files. 1.8.5.703 (other prefs files 272 bytes). No problems experienced with Designer. Just wondering. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted January 22, 2021 Share Posted January 22, 2021 For what it's worth, in 1.8 mine are all 2-3 KB. In 1.9 they're all 1-44 KB. I've no idea what would be in preferences.dat to get it up to 16 MB. 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...
Staff Sean P Posted January 25, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 25, 2021 Hi Jowday - it certainly shouldn't be that big! Would you be able to attach a copy of the Preferences.dat to the link below please:https://www.dropbox.com/request/anuwjWHI6QS2REX8bSud Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 36 minutes ago, Sean P said: Hi Jowday - it certainly shouldn't be that big! Would you be able to attach a copy of the Preferences.dat to the link below please:https://www.dropbox.com/request/anuwjWHI6QS2REX8bSud No, sorry I deleted it during a re-install. Forgot about it. The new prefs file is 272. I will keep an eye on it. In Photo (release) folder preferences.dat is ~8.000 bytes Publisher (release) ~800.000 bytes Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 6 minutes ago, Sean P said: Hi Jowday - it certainly shouldn't be that big! Would you be able to attach a copy of the Preferences.dat to the link below please: What prefs is stored in it and what triggers a save? Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted January 25, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, Jowday said: What prefs is stored in it and what triggers a save? There are no preferences stored in it as they're written to XML files, as far as I'm aware it's just a temporary file written on exit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, Sean P said: There are no preferences stored in it as they're written to XML files, as far as I'm aware it's just a temporary file written on exit. Ah but Publisher rewrites the 800.000 bytes file then on exit even when I make massive prefs changes, moves and closes studios. etc. Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted January 25, 2021 Staff Share Posted January 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Jowday said: Ah but Publisher rewrites the 800.000 bytes file then on exit even when I make massive prefs changes, moves and closes studios. etc. It turns out the file is actually the current brush settings that get saved, so if you've used a particularly image intensive raster brush then that would explain the larger file size. Jowday 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowday Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 5 minutes ago, Sean P said: It turns out the file is actually the current brush settings that get saved, so if you've used a particularly image intensive raster brush then that would explain the larger file size. That explains a lot - thanks, @Sean P 🙂 Quote "The user interface is supposed to work for me - I am not supposed to work for the user interface." Computer-, operating system- and software agnostic; I am a result oriented professional. Look for a fanboy somewhere else. “When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.” ― Confucius Not an Affinity user og forum user anymore. The software continued to disappoint and not deliver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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