Can't save a macro / Makros werden nicht gespeichert

[NeunSterne]

Wenn ich ein Makro aufzeichne und in  der Bibliothek speichere, dann ist es nach erneutem öffnen von Affinity Photo nicht mehr da. Die etwas umständliche Lösung ist wie folgt:
Ich speichere die komplette Bilddatei mit der ich das Makro erstellt habe als .afphoto-Datei mit "speichern unter". Nur so merkt sich AP das neu erstellte Makro und das Makro ist nach erneutem öffnen noch da.
Genau so muss ich vorgehen, wenn ich ein Makro in der Bibliothek löschen möchte 😞

Bitte diesen Bug beheben.

Translation via GOOGLE:

When I record a macro and save it in the library, it is no longer there when I reopen Affinity Photo. The somewhat cumbersome solution is as follows:

I save the complete image file with which I created the macro as an .afphoto file with "save as". This is the only way for AP to remember the newly created macro and the macro is still there when it is opened again.

This is exactly how I have to proceed if I want to delete a macro in the library 😞

Please fix this bug.

[David in Яuislip]

Well that should not happen. After creating the macro I suggest exporting it to file, restart Photo, import the macro into the Macro panel and try to save it to the Library again

You should be able to delete a macro by right clicking on it in the Library panel

[Gabe]

Hi @NeunSterne,

Welcome to the forums. 

We've seen this once before but could never replicate it. Any chance you can attach a screen recording of your workflow? 

[Pixeldude7]

I have the same issue 🤔 

Exporting the Macro and reimporting it is not possible since you can't click on the macro file (greyed out in Finder).

[walt.farrell]

26 minutes ago, Pixeldude7 said:

Exporting the Macro and reimporting it is not possible since you can't click on the macro file (greyed out in Finder)

I didn't see any use of Finder in your video. But I will mention that if you export from the Macro panel you get a .afmacro file, and will need to import it to the Macro panel again.

If you export from the Library panel you get a .afmacros file, and you can import that into the Library panel again.

One file format holds a single macro and works with the Macro panel (.afmacro). The other can hold multiple macros, and works with the Library panel (.afmacros).

[Pixeldude7]

Thanks for your reply. I wanted to record another Screencap where I demonstrate being unable to load a saved .afmacro file, this time I was able to import it back into Affinity Photo. Seems that before I tried to import the file via the library panel, thx for making the difference clear. However at the end of this video you can see another problem, where I can't access the macro via batch-processing.

Edited November 30, 2021 by Pixeldude7

[Old Bruce]

I am not seeing in your library the macro. Should there not be a new macro called Test in the Standard library?

[Pixeldude7]

2 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I am not seeing in your library the macro. Should there not be a new macro called Test in the Standard library?

Yes there should be, but unfortunately there isn't, thats why I felt inclined to contribute to this thread.

[Old Bruce]

Can you save one to a new or different collection in the library?

[Pixeldude7]

Nice, creating a new category in the library-panel and saving the macro to it did work! Thx 👌

The macros are now stored permanently even after application restart.

So the problem is with the default library only.

I have no clue about coding applications, but maybe it's a OS-system-language thing, due to different system-folder names/paths or something like that ('Default' vs 'Standard')? (Since the thread creator is a German user as myself). Experienced similar problems with installing color profiles in Affinity where I had to manually copy the profiles into the right folder.

[Old Bruce]

You could be correct Pixeldude7 it might be down to the language and directory names being different.