Assets Menus Disabled - Cannot Delete and Asset

[FitzRaymond]

Hi,

Some time ago, I added some of my own assets to the Assets panel in the form of PNG overlays. I want to delete some of these because I have never used them. However, the delete option is disabled. See the attached screenshots.

I am running AP 1.10.0 on an iMac M1.

 

[AlanPickup]

In windows and 1.10 beta the delete is in the top panel under delete catagory, not sure if that is the one you are pressing?

[jmwellborn]

33 minutes ago, FitzRaymond said:

Hi,

Some time ago, I added some of my own assets to the Assets panel in the form of PNG overlays. I want to delete some of these because I have never used them. However, the delete option is disabled. See the attached screenshots.

I am running AP 1.10.0 on an iMac M1.

 

 

 

I also have AP 1.10.0 on my MacBook Pro with M1.  I use the light mode, so my examples below look different, but I can definitely delete either an individual asset within a single category (top left), all the assets within a single category (top right), or a complete category (bottom left).    Hope this may help.

[walt.farrell]

@FitzRaymond: Your second screenshot of of a set of Assets from the Affinity Store, probably installed via the My Account (Content Synchronization) feature. You cannot rename or delete individual assets from one of those asset packs. For Assets that you created or added, the right-click method should work.

The hamburger menus are for dealing with entire asset categories or subcategories, not individual asserts.

[FitzRaymond]

YES .. I understand how it is supposed to work. What I am saying is that it is not working for me. As you can see in the snapshots I uploaded, all the options are greyed out except "Rename." I can't click them. That is the problem I am having.

[FitzRaymond]

@walt.farrell  Nope. These are all assets that I added from my own files from my desktop. They were not installed via the "My Account" content synchronization. Also, if you look again at my screenshots, neither the hamburger method nor the right-click method works. Both produce menu of items that are greyed out and cannot be clicked.

[FitzRaymond]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

@FitzRaymond: Your second screenshot of of a set of Assets from the Affinity Store, probably installed via the My Account (Content Synchronization) feature. You cannot rename or delete individual assets from one of those asset packs. For Assets that you created or added, the right-click method should work.

The hamburger menus are for dealing with entire asset categories or subcategories, not individual asserts.

Nope. These are all assets that I added from my own files from my desktop. They were not installed via the "My Account" content synchronization. Also, if you look again at my screenshots, neither the hamburger method nor the right-click method works. Both produce menu of items that are greyed out and cannot be clicked.

[walt.farrell]

5 minutes ago, FitzRaymond said:

Nope. These are all assets that I added from my own files from my desktop.

Your screenshot shows this:

That is the "Paint Roller Textures by MiksKS" category from the Affinity Store, though if memory serves it was a free one:

Find your category in that pulldown that is currently set to "Paint Roller Textures by MiksKS" and it should all work.

 

[R C-R]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

That is the "Paint Roller Textures by MiksKS" category from the Affinity Store...

FWIW, it looks like @FitzRaymond renamed its only subcategory -- originally named "PNG Ink Stamp Textures" -- to simply "Assets."

[walt.farrell]

23 minutes ago, R C-R said:

FWIW, it looks like @FitzRaymond renamed its only subcategory -- originally named "PNG Ink Stamp Textures" -- to simply "Assets."

No, that's what it shows for me, too:

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

No, that's what it shows for me, too:

Odd. On my Mac it is "PNG Ink Stamp Textures"

I even deleted it & downloaded it again via "My Account" to make sure it was the default.

A weird Mac vs. Windows difference, maybe?

[walt.farrell]

32 minutes ago, R C-R said:

A weird Mac vs. Windows difference, maybe?

We're discussing Paint Roller Textures, not Ink Stamp Textures  

[R C-R]

29 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

We're discussing Paint Roller Textures, not Ink Stamp Textures  

DOH!!! I don't know how I managed to confuse the two but of course you are right -- the Paint Roller Textures subcategory defaults to "Assets."

[FitzRaymond]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Your screenshot shows this:

That is the "Paint Roller Textures by MiksKS" category from the Affinity Store, though if memory serves it was a free one:

Find your category in that pulldown that is currently set to "Paint Roller Textures by MiksKS" and it should all work.

 

OK yes you are right. I was confusing them maybe with some that I have that are very similar.

 

[FitzRaymond]

OK so @walt.farrell was correct from the beginning. Sorry I was misunderstanding. I thought those were assets I had added from my own because I have some very similar overlays. You were right ... the way to remove them was through the "My Account."

[walt.farrell]

14 minutes ago, FitzRaymond said:

the way to remove them was through the "My Account."

You could also remove all of that category using the hamburger menu for the panel. There's a special entry in it to remove one of the Store packs.

[FitzRaymond]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

You could also remove all of that category using the hamburger menu for the panel. There's a special entry in it to remove one of the Store packs.

I went into "My Account" and used the hamburger panel from there to "uninstall" and it removed both the assets and the categories.

Thanks again.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.