affinity designer freezing on save

[RocketPoweredTennisBall]

when saving a document, even when there are basically no changes to save (opening a group and selecting one object), it freezes and does not unfreeze in a reasonable amount of time (i have not left it overnight to see). however it does successfully save the document. as far as i know, this started after updating to the recent security patch.

macos 10.15.7 (19H1417)

affinity designer 1.10.1

[Callum]

Hi RocketpoweredTennisBall,

Welcome to the forums

Are you saving directly to your hard drive or are you saving to a USB stick or Cloud drive etc? If you create a brand new file and try saving it does this issue occur? 
Please could you also tell me if you have tried reinstalling the app?

[RocketPoweredTennisBall]

5 hours ago, Callum said:

Hi RocketpoweredTennisBall,

Welcome to the forums

Are you saving directly to your hard drive or are you saving to a USB stick or Cloud drive etc? If you create a brand new file and try saving it does this issue occur? 
Please could you also tell me if you have tried reinstalling the app?

i was saving to the internal drive in a non-synced location. i had first had this with a new file but i had copied in some objects from another file before saving. i did try it on a document that i had previously had no issue with, and it happened to that as well. i will try reinstalling the app today.

[RocketPoweredTennisBall]

ok i created a new document, containing nothing, units are mm and it's 400 dpi if that ends up mattering, and it still freezes. i will try reinstalling it next.

[RocketPoweredTennisBall]

before reinstalling i decided to check in affinity photo as well, it has the same issue

[RocketPoweredTennisBall]

and same for publisher

[RocketPoweredTennisBall]

hm restarting may have fixed it. it froze for a second and then unfroze. i will report back if it happens again and will reinstall if it does so

[BenjaminDavies]

I am having the same issue, its been happening for weeks now, I have tried save as in different locations, rather than my iCloud and have reinstalled twice and it works ojk for a bit but its happening again. I have some artwork to get sorted today for a client and I don't know what else to try!

[chrismarquardt]

Same issue here. Designer 2 freezes on save (document is in iCloud but on local SSD, M2 Macbook Air), CPU goes to 100% during this. Will reboot system next to see if it helps.

 

[chrismarquardt]

Restart didn't help. Moving the file to another disk didn't help. Reliably freezes on save.

It's an .afdesign file on macOS. Opened it in Photo 2, it opened fine and saved fine after changes. 

Opened the saved file in Designer, opens fine, still doesn't save.