bbrocks214 Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 I just downloaded several sets of overlay assets for Affinity Photo on my iMac running BigSur. I see the grayed out overlays in my assets panel but when I go to install them I cannot find them on my drive. They all downloaded successfully. I have tried to search various folders/drives but they are not there. Can anyone tell me where they would be stored? Thanks, Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron P. Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 Hi @bbrocks214, I'm not familiar with Mac's file/route system, but on Windows they're located in a proprietary propcol file, called assets.propcol. C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\user\assets.propcol. Unless you downloaded them directly from your account at Serif's website. They would be where you wanted them downloaded to. Since you see them in your assets panel I'm guessing you used the My Account feature in Affinity Photo. Do you have a document/file open? You need to in order to access them. Then it's a matter of drag-n-dropping one from the assets panel onto your document/file. bbrocks214 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 The folder paths for assets.propcol and other Affinity user data files are listed here: bbrocks214 1 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...
walt.farrell Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 1 hour ago, bbrocks214 said: I see the grayed out overlays in my assets panel but when I go to install them If you can see them in your Assets panel they are already installed. Don't worry that they are gray. Just use them. bbrocks214 1 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...
bbrocks214 Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 Thank you both for the info. I found the file folder via Finder but when I go into Affinity Photo i canon get to it for some reason. Guess I'm not very adept at the working of the OS. Anyway when I'm in Photo I have the Asset Panel open and I see the overlays but they are grayed out and I'm not sure what to do from that point. I have other assets that display just fine but these were in stalled in previous versions of Affinty. I''m running 1.9. If you look at the screen shot I've included you can see what I mean. What do I do from this point to get the overlays to show up so I can use them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfred Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 2 minutes ago, bbrocks214 said: I see the overlays but they are grayed out 6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Don't worry that they are gray. Just use them. They’re fog overlays, so they’re meant to be grey/gray. bbrocks214 1 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...
bbrocks214 Posted February 26, 2021 Author Share Posted February 26, 2021 Thanks Walt! That worked, I was trying to click on it and nothing happened but I took Ron's suggestion to drag and drop and it works. Thanks again to you all, I can't tell you how much time I wasted trying to figure this out on my own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 26, 2021 Share Posted February 26, 2021 1 minute ago, bbrocks214 said: I was trying to click on it and nothing happened You can either drag an asset, or double-click and then Place it like you would with File > Place. bbrocks214 1 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...
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