dneilson2 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 My desktop is starting to fail. I have copied thousands of Vector files (.svg, etc including .afdesigns) that I’d like to continue to work on using iPad version Affinity Designer. How do I import into iPad? And where do I save newly edited? Thank you in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 Welcome back to the Serif Affinity Forums, @dneilson2. When you tap on the ‘+’ symbol in the top right-hand corner of the Home Screen of the iPad app you’re presented with several options including ‘Open From Cloud’: Edited files are saved to the app’s sandbox area, but you can also ‘Save a Copy’ (via the Document menu) to an external location of your choice. The latter option is highly recommended, since sandboxed files may be lost through accidental corruption or deliberate removal of the app. 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...
dneilson2 Posted January 25, 2021 Author Share Posted January 25, 2021 Thank you. 😀 So it’s important to save all my vector files to the cloud first? (have no more storage on desktop). In order to import my work into AD for iPad, I will need to buy more storage first (import from cloud and export to cloud) ? Countless hours creating and editing...is this safe? I was storing all my work on an external drive. thanks again. Alfred 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 An external drive might work, too, as long as you have the means to access it from your iPad; I have no experience of using external drives in this way. The important point is not to rely on the sandbox area for storing your valuable documents. 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...
DM1 Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 2 hours ago, dneilson2 said: So it’s important to save all my vector files to the cloud first? (have no more storage on desktop). I have 512GB storage on my iPad and use Documents (by Readdle) to set up 'nested' folders. Affinity can access these directly and also access files from Cloud services, networked drives, wireless drives and USB drives. Plenty of safe options for backups. I have heard of issues reading and writing to SSD drives though. Affinity utilises the Files app to access locations, so if Files can access the file, so can affinity. Alfred 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...
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