Kevin Jacobs Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 When i save a file in either Affinity Photo or Designer i don't see a file extension at the end of my file name. Like AI for Illustrator or PSD for Photoshop. Im new to Affinity so i don't know if im missing a setting somewhere? I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks. Quote
Staff Callum Posted July 4, 2021 Staff Posted July 4, 2021 Hi the file extension should be .afphoto or .afdesign etc depending on the app used I'd recommend making sure you have file extensions visible. https://vtcri.kayako.com/article/296-view-file-extensions-windows-10 Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP.
Old Bruce Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 There is also an option in the Affinity preferences to Automatically Hide the file extensions, this is in the General tab and it is on by default. Apparently this is a Mac version option. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 33 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: There is also an option in the preferences to Automatically Hide the file extensions, this is in the General tab and it is on by default. That may be a Mac-specific preference, as I do not see it in my Windows versions of the Affinity applications. Old Bruce 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Wosven Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: That may be a Mac-specific preference, as I do not see it in my Windows versions of the Affinity applications. In the Folders settings you can hide automatically "known" extensions, at least on W7 and earlier versions. (sorry, too lazy to open the W10 laptop to check). Quote
walt.farrell Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 3 minutes ago, Wosven said: In the Folders settings you can hide automatically "known" extensions, at least on W7 and earlier versions. (sorry, too lazy to open the W10 laptop to check). Yes, but I interpreted @Old Bruce's post as referring to Affinity Preferences, not the preferences for File Explorer or Finder. Wosven and Old Bruce 2 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Old Bruce Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 Walt is correct, I mean the Affinity Preferences. I shall try to make that clear in the post. I guess it is Mac version specific. walt.farrell 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
R C-R Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 7 hours ago, Old Bruce said: There is also an option in the Affinity preferences to Automatically Hide the file extensions, this is in the General tab and it is on by default. Apparently this is a Mac version option. This Mac default is one of the things I change immediately whenever I have to reset any of the Mac Affinity apps. I am not sure what anyone would want to hide the extension -- it just makes it harder to check which Affinity app would open the file if it was double-clicked in Finder. Old Bruce 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Kevin Jacobs Posted July 4, 2021 Author Posted July 4, 2021 Thanks for the tip. Yes i have an older Mac Book Pro. This tip works in some cases but not in all. When I open a Affinity Designer file it will show the file extension but when im searching in a list amongst other programs the file extension disappears again. Quote
R C-R Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 7 minutes ago, Kevin Jacobs said: Thanks for the tip. Yes i have an older Mac Book Pro. This tip works in some cases but not in all. When I open a Affinity Designer file it will show the file extension but when im searching in a list amongst other programs the file extension disappears again. In what other apps does this happen? Can you post a screenshot where the file extension of a native format Affinity file is hidden? Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Kevin Jacobs Posted July 4, 2021 Author Posted July 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, R C-R said: In what other apps does this happen? Can you post a screenshot where the file extension of a native format Affinity file is hidden? Hello RC-R, here is a screen shot of what im talking about. See that .jpg .afphoto, png. show in the listing but not afdesign. Notice that you don't see a file extension for my Affinity Designer "Kevin's personal rubber stamp" . That is a Affinity Designer file but you don't see the file extension. I unchecked the setting in the preferences to show the file extensions but in Affinity Designer in does not appear. Thanks for your help. Quote
Old Bruce Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 16 minutes ago, Kevin Jacobs said: ... I unchecked the setting in the preferences to show the file extensions but in Affinity Designer in does not appear... Only works for new files made after the change to the preferences. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
R C-R Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 16 minutes ago, Kevin Jacobs said: I unchecked the setting in the preferences to show the file extensions but in Affinity Designer in does not appear. I am not quite sure what you mean by that. The preference is to automatically hide (not show) the file extension & it appears in all 3 Affinity apps in Preferences > General. 8 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Only works for new files made after the change to the preferences. That's what I thought too but on my iMac running Catalina, it does not matter if it is set to hide or not -- if it is, Finder's Get Info window shows the Hide Extension box checked ... but the extension is not actually hidden, not in Finder or in any File > Open window of any app I tested. In fact, from what I can tell, the Get Info "Hide Extension" checkbox doesn't work for any filetype-- the extensions are never hidden. I don't know if this means something is borked in my system or what. 😕 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Old Bruce Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 22 minutes ago, R C-R said: In fact, from what I can tell, the Get Info "Hide Extension" checkbox doesn't work for any filetype-- the extensions are never hidden. I don't know if this means something is borked in my system or what. 😕 The same thing is happening here. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Kevin Jacobs Posted July 4, 2021 Author Posted July 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: The same thing is happening here. Ok... so i created a new file in Affinity Designer and now it works. I can see the Affinity Designer file extension in my folder listing. Thanks Affinity community for all your help!! 55 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Only works for new files made after the change to the preferences. 55 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: Only works for new files made after the change to the preferences. 8 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: The same thing is happening here. 8 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: The same thing is happening here. 31 minutes ago, R C-R said: I am not quite sure what you mean by that. The preference is to automatically hide (not show) the file extension & it appears in all 3 Affinity apps in Preferences > General. That's what I thought too but on my iMac running Catalina, it does not matter if it is set to hide or not -- if it is, Finder's Get Info window shows the Hide Extension box checked ... but the extension is not actually hidden, not in Finder or in any File > Open window of any app I tested. In fact, from what I can tell, the Get Info "Hide Extension" checkbox doesn't work for any filetype-- the extensions are never hidden. I don't know if this means something is borked in my system or what. 😕 7 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: The same thing is happening here. 7 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: The same thing is happening here. Quote
R C-R Posted July 4, 2021 Posted July 4, 2021 16 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: The same thing is happening here. So I guess my system is not messed up; instead, something is preventing that option from working for either of us. I just have no clue what it might be. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7
Catshill Posted July 6, 2021 Posted July 6, 2021 The strange (Windows) situation… Create a document in APu. Use Edit in Designer. Save document. Document retains APu suffix and icon but… Opens in ADe when double clicked. Quote
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