budaloco Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 I will try to walk you through this one. I made a mural design in affinity designer. I had to split the wall in three, but I worked the file as a single artboard. Then I duplicated that artwork 2 times (with the same elements) and made each artwork the size of the piece of the wall Saved that affinity designer file. Then on affinity photo I PLACED all 3 artboards in their place and applied the perspective filter. I opened the designer file as an embed to edit the contents of the design while looking at the mockup using separate mode (my fav technique). BUT when I tried to save that affinity photo file I couldn't do it. I kept getting this message saying "can't write on this file". Tried to copy the embed contents to a new affinity designer file, but I could not for some reason. Tried to "SAVE AS" and I got the same error and then I got into a loop. Can't save so I'm asked to save as, save as doesn't work. Actually it does write a file but is 0 bytes. Tried to use the "edit in..." both times it failed (affinity photo and publisher) I had to click in "NO" and I couldn't save. I was fortunate enough to be able to copy as merged and keep a flat version of what I was working on. It's worth noting that I was working in a dropbox folder. I don't know if that affects anything, but I thought I should mention it. If you want to test it out I'm putting the dropbox links below. The way I broke it is I edited the embed version inside affinity photo. 0 bytes .afphoto file dropbox link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2j8pkyu4z1orpc/mockup-vw.afphoto?dl=0 Complex Affinity photo file (not the last version, the last version that I was able to save): https://www.dropbox.com/s/y44hki45tnmq5kc/mockup.afphoto?dl=0 Affinity designer file (just in case) https://www.dropbox.com/s/9xjhevzxnmb79t1/MURAL-IDEAS.afdesign?dl=0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Pauls Posted November 12, 2021 Staff Share Posted November 12, 2021 Thanks for the files - I've not yet been able to recreate the same effect yet. Can you check to see it the save error occurs when the files are not in a dropbox folder please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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