Round trip experience: Open from Cloud ..... except when it doesn’t

[iainH]

Open from Cloud  on iPad is a misleading Open variant, or counter-intuitive at least.

Affinity will open the local version of the file unless it has been closed first, when it will copy the remote file and open it as you’d expect.

So, if you’re cycling work on a file between Desktop and iPad, the round trip between the two platforms is a bit clunky at the points at which you finish and resume work on the iPad. Any chance it can be made a bit more streamlined?

Background

My Affinity iPad settings save to iCloud Drive.

After I’ve saved my file, having completed my work for the time-being on the iPad, I make it my practice to the remember to close the file also. This will prevent me from doing any subsequent work on the iPad file now that I have committed to continue my work on the Desktop Mac by having saved the file. It will also ensure that, after I return to the iPad, I really do Open from Cloud, and get the latest version with any work done on the Mac rather than inadvertently picking up a previous version locally from the iPad (and in this last case, Open from Clouddoesn’t actualllly mean simply Open from Cloud, it means Open from Cloud so long as there’s no local file of the same name.

Perhaps commands to move a file to Cloud and to copy a file to Cloud rather than save to Cloud? OK, that doesn’t sound great .... but it is something that needs some thought.