Cannot export work from Photo / Designer after updating to MacOS Monterey

[Ellipsis]

I've updated my Macbook Pro to Monterey and since then I cannot export my work from neither Photo nor Designer.

When I go to File > Export, a dialog box opens but when I select my export options and click Export button, dialog box disappears and nothing happens. Usually I'm prompted to select file location to which I want to export.

Is this happening to other users as well or is it just me?

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

From the FAQ:

For Photo, you might try the newly released 1.10.5 beta, which has some improvements in this area:

 

[CH Trippe]

In addition to sluggish behavior with color menus when I am working with gradients or color overlays, I am now also experiencing sluggish behavior when I use the selection brush tool -- it was working beautifully and quickly until now -- sluggish is the most appropriate word, although it almost doesn't work at all -- so  I'm assuming from what I'm reading here that the problem must be  related to Monterey. But what seems  odd is that these problems didn't manifest themselves immediately after I upgraded to Monterey.  So you would advise downloading that beta update, since auto updates aren't available yet? 

 

Edited January 5, 2022 by CH Trippe
Wanted to add something.

[CH Trippe]

So I went to the App Store and did a search, fairly thorough I thought,  but couldn't find any Affinity Photo Customer Beta update. Got "No Results" when I typed it into the search field.  I only updated to Monterey about a month ago, so I guess  I'm getting in a little late on this conversation. So where do I find the fix?  

 

[Old Bruce]

9 minutes ago, CH Trippe said:

So I went to the App Store and did a search, fairly thorough I thought,  but couldn't find any Affinity Photo Customer Beta update.

The betas are not in the App Store, they are from Serif/Affinity. They also do not have updates per se.

[CH Trippe]

Thank you, Bruce. Obviously I misread/misunderstood.  So, sigh,  I guess I'll be  waiting until Apple fixes the bug in Monterey, which surely they will have to do pretty soon, since it appears that  this problem is affecting quite a few dedicated Affinity users.   But apparently not everyone is experiencing the same kinds of issues. While I am experiencing lags with certain tools, I am still able to export images -- so far!  ( I always export a jpeg to store in Photos, for safe-keeping as it were,  and keep the duplicate Affinity file active so I can make layer changes as needed).