Locking layer contents)

[Dee Kay]

I have absolutely no luck with locking layer. It makes me wonder if my understanding of what it is supposed to accomplish is what I think.

Let's go back to the beginning. First I used Adobe programs. This became too expensive as a rental for a non-professional like myself, especially after I closed my main business. At the time the cost was incurred when you bought it, not a rental fee. The small projects I do are not money makers. I switched to Affinity because the cost was more reasonable. 

Now to the problem: If I save a document and reopen in Designer items will move from where I placed them. I am working on a large document and this is infuriating. Now there is this locking function but it seems useless. If a page element is locked I cannot edit it. My only option is to unlock all. When I do that what appears to happen is that everything in this rather long document is unlocked. There is no other option here. Do I really have to go though the whole document some 100 pages and re-lock every element? Every time I want to make a minot change?

First of all it seems inane that if I leave elements unlocked and reopen the document a day later many items are now shifted from where I placed them. Pardon me but this seems unless. Almost every page of my 160 page document now needs adjusting. Going back to Pagemaker I have never encountered such an annoying flaw. As it stands it seems like every time I want make a change on one page I am now required to go over may whole document of 154 pages seeing what was unlocked and now moved. If you place something in Word and save it and come back things are where they were when you save it and this was certainly the case when I used Pagemaker and Adobe. 

 

[MEB]

Hi @Dee Kay,
Welcome to Affinity Forums
Looks like something is going wrong with your document if things are changing place when you reopen it - this should never happen. The lock feature is irrelevant here.
I'm splitting your post from the original thread (Locking layer contents) and placing it on a new one in the Publisher Bugs section (for macOS - we can move it for Windows later if that's the OS you are using - just let us know) so we can follow this issue separately. Any chance you can provide the file to be inspected? I can provide an upload link if you wish to keep the file private.

[Dee Kay]

I am on Mac, thanks for the prompt reply.