Jhigg Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 (edited) When I try to open some of my .afphoto files in Affinity Photo that I previously created, they are grayed out and I cannot open them. I can open jpg files and some afphoto files I created in the past, but it seems the ones I have created more recently can't be opened. The files that are grayed out in affinity photo don't seem to appear in my "finder" at all, though the openable ones do. I can't seem to upload one of the grayed out files here either. I am using a Macbook OS X El Captain. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance! Edited October 14, 2021 by Jhigg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Screenshot? OS? Upload an "unopenable" file to the forum? Jhigg 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.3.1.2217 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.2506. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.2506. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Non-gray files have a JPG extension. Gray files have no extension. Either you have some strange settings for displaying file extensions, or you deleted/did not enter it when saving the file, so Affinity does not detect these files as known and openable. Jhigg 1 Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.3.1.2217 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.2506. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.2506. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 In addition to Pšenda's observation about the missing extension I would point out the difference in the icon's thumbnail, the grey one has a turned corner indicating it is a some other format possibly a Word document or some such. Jhigg 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.2 Affinity Designer 2.3.1 | Affinity Photo 2.3.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.3.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jhigg Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 Thank you both for your help! I am new to this stuff. Great observations! So the odd thing is that I noticed that some files that do no have any extension and that have a turned corner are not grayed out and open in affinity photo just fine! I did a test where I just scribbled some black and red lines and then clicked "save as" and just saved it to my downloads and it appears with no extension, a turned corner, but not grayed out. So weird! I'm not sure what to make of this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pšenda Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 The bent corner icon is for documents (see leaves11/5x7.afphoto), the straight corner is for jpg images. A screenshot from a file manager might be useful - what the files are really named, including their extensions. P. S. It's now possible to open all the files, right? Quote Affinity Store (MSI/EXE): Affinity Suite (ADe, APh, APu) 2.3.1.2217 Dell OptiPlex 7060, i5-8500 3.00 GHz, 16 GB, Intel UHD Graphics 630, Dell P2417H 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.2506. Dell Latitude E5570, i5-6440HQ 2.60 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics 530, 1920 x 1080, Windows 11 Pro, Version 23H2, Build 22631.2506. Intel NUC5PGYH, Pentium N3700 2.40 GHz, 8 GB, Intel HD Graphics, EIZO EV2456 1920 x 1200, Windows 10 Pro, Version 21H1, Build 19043.2130. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jhigg Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 So the strange thing is that some of the icons with bent corners and no extension name can be opened, and others are still grayed out and can't! The ones that can't be opened aren't visible in the file manager! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonSquirrel Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 2 hours ago, Jhigg said: So the strange thing is that some of the icons with bent corners and no extension name can be opened I can confirm this. I have abcfile.aphoto, it has a bent corner, and it appears in finder as 'abcfile' without an extension. It opens without problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 1 hour ago, LondonSquirrel said: I can confirm this. I have abcfile.aphoto, it has a bent corner, and it appears in finder as 'abcfile' without an extension. It opens without problems. I assume you mean abcfile.afphoto. Regardless, all my afphoto files show a bent corner in Finder's Icon view mode. All open without problems as well. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V23.0 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonSquirrel Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 12 hours ago, R C-R said: I assume you mean abcfile.afphoto. Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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