Phil Flannery Posted March 17, 2021 Share Posted March 17, 2021 I am using Affinity Photo 1.9.1 on a iMac running Big Sur 11.2.3 and whenever I attempt to edit a photo from the Photos app using Affinity and save the photo from Affinity back to the Photos app Affinity crashes and issues the message, UNABLE TO EDIT WITH “EDIT IN AFFINITY PHOTO” and everything I have done in Affinity is lost. It doesn’t matter what I do in Affinity, it crashes after doing Command+S and Command+W to save and close the photo and then back in the Photos app I click “Save Changes” then the error message is issued. I have tried removing the Affinity Photos extension from the photos app and restarting the computer and then reestablishing Affinity extensions in Photos but the same error occurs. When I use Affinity to edit a photo opened directly - without using the Photos app - everything works fine, so there must be some problem with linking Affinity and Photos. Any ideas how to fix this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted March 17, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 17, 2021 Hi @Phil Flannery, Welcome to the forums. Have you got the Mac App Store version or the Affinity Store? I've just tried it with a Raw and a jpeg and both times the edited image was passed back correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Flannery Posted March 17, 2021 Author Share Posted March 17, 2021 I've got the Affinity Store version back in 2018 with version 1.8.3. It used to work fine but there have been many updates to both to the Mac and Affinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted March 18, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 18, 2021 Any chance you can attach a screen recoding of your workflow? I feel like I'm missing a step. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Flannery Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 I think this will show you what you wanted - starts off with a b/w photo in Photos, Edit, then Edit in Affinity, moves to Affinity, did a simple crop, saved, closed the file in Affinity, moved back to Photos app, clicked Save Changes, and Affinity issues the error message. Screen_Recording_2021-03-18_at_16_10_27.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Flannery Posted March 18, 2021 Author Share Posted March 18, 2021 Whilst learning how to create the above video I practised on several other photos, doing the same thing in Affinity, just a crop, and noticed that the ONLY pictures I could get to go wrong and issue the error message were black and white ones created from scanning black & white negatives. When Affinity gets the photo is issues a message as shown below. I've several other black & white photos from black & white negatives and each time I edit any of them with Affinity I get this warning message and Affinity crashes when I return to Photos - as described above. However , if when the b/w photo arrives in Affinity I convert the colour profile to something else, e.g. RGB/16, and then proceed with the edit everything works OK. Therefore it would seem the problem is associated with "Greyscale D50" profile. I have other black & white pictures produced by scanning paper prints, these get a profile of Greyscale/8 when they arrive at Affinity and any editing works fine. But if I change the profile from Greyscale/8 to D50 then when I attempt to save any changes in Affinity and return to Photos I get the same Unable to Edit in Affinity error message - this somewhat confirms that it has something fundamental to do with Greyscale D50 Profile. I hope all that helps someone work out what is wrong - in the meantime I can proceed to use Affinity for my black & whites - just avoid any D50 conversions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted March 19, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 19, 2021 Any chance you can zip and attach a sample b&w scanned file that gives that error? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Flannery Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 (edited) Here's the file that causes the error when loaded from Photos to Affinity as above. OE023.jpg.zip Edited March 19, 2021 by Phil Flannery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Flannery Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 I have just downloaded my own file, unzipped it, imported it into Photos, edited it in Affinity, did a simple crop, saved it, closed it in Affinity, back in Photos clicked Save Changes and got the error message "Unable to Edit with 'Edit in Affinity Photo'. I hope someone else can get the same fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Flannery Posted March 19, 2021 Author Share Posted March 19, 2021 I have discovered that when these b/w photos are opened in Affinity they have a Colour Format of ‘Grey/8’, however if this is changed (Document/Convert/Format ICC Profile) to ‘Grey/16’ and the ICC profile changed to something other than D50 then the error message does not appear and the editing works fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicoftheDogs Posted March 19, 2021 Share Posted March 19, 2021 Hi Phil I've had the problem of crashing when sharing back to Photos ever since I updated to Affinity 1.9.1 when it was released. I've put it on the forum twice & I was promised that the error had been passed to the developers. I still had the problem until today when it's just got worse as the option to Share to Phones has now disappeared! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted March 22, 2021 Staff Share Posted March 22, 2021 Thanks Phil. Issue now logged. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uwe T Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 Hi Phil, this bug is already now for over one year and still lasts. But i can save raw. As the very last step after editing I switch to Develop Persona, accept without changing something. Then close and save works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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