All assets disappear in latest beta.

[emmrecs01]

This is another problem I have encountered in the latest beta, .1079.

Opening this version I found that my Assets tab was empty.  Not a problem, I simply copied assets.propcol from the latest release to the beta, a total of about 5GB.  They showed as present in the correct folder of the beta version.

Opened the beta version, no assets!  Checked the folder where they had been moved to and the file size now shows as 1KB!!!  Repeated the whole exercise, still no joy!  They seem to transfer without problem but, on opening the beta version it seems that assets.propcol reverts to being an empty file!

Jeff

[walt.farrell]

My Assets were just fine when I installed and opened .1079.

I have had mixed results copying assets.propcol between different Affinity applications in the past, but I don't think I've ever tried copying it between the release version and a beta version of the same application.

[emmrecs01]

Hi Walt.

Many thanks for this response.

I think this is something that I really need @Mark Ingram to comment on then.

It is entirely possible that few, if any, of the assets in my release version were previously also used in my installation of the betas (I honestly can't remember) but I wonder why copying that assets.propcol file from the user directory in the release to the user directory in the beta seemed to go "without a hitch" (it showed as being approximately 5GB in size) but the assets did not show in the re-opened beta and the file size in that user directory was now 1 KB?

Questions, questions...

Jeff

[Chris B]

Mine were okay too @emmrecs01 - I'm not sure what has happened to yours  

[Mark Ingram]

Where are you copying them to?

[emmrecs01]

3 hours ago, Mark Ingram said:

Where are you copying them to?

From C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0\user to C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\Affinity\Photo\1.0(Beta)\user

Is that not the correct place?

assets.propcol in that folder of the release version is 5,346,332 KB; in the Beta folder it's 1 KB. 

As I wrote before, following the initial copy procedure shows the beta file to be the same size as the release.  Opening the beta app, no assets shown, and assets.propcol in the beta\user folder is 1 KB.

 

UPDATE: I decided to try what I considered could be a nuclear option!  I moved the whole User folder out of the above Beta directory (saved it to my desktop, in case of disasters!) and then copied the complete User folder form the release to the beta.  Result: all assets now available in the Beta.  I shall keep the original Beta\User folder, which I have now copied to a different drive, until such time as I am happy that everything in the Beta is "as it should be".

So, it seems, problem resolved, hopefully!

Jeff

[walt.farrell]

12 minutes ago, emmrecs01 said:

Opening the beta app, no assets shown, and assets.propcol in the beta\user folder is 1 KB.

In my experience that means that the assets.propcol file you copied is not compatible with the release or application you copied it to, and so the application has replaced it with the "factory default" set of assets.

[emmrecs01]

Hi Walt.

Whilst you were writing I updated my latest reply.  It seems the problem is resolved (as detailed in my update) so, fingers crossed!