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You can (and should!) save copies of your Affinity documents outside of the apps’ sandboxed storage area, but I don’t know of a way to do this for multiple files in one fell swoop.

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8 minutes ago, MEB said:

Currently you can't save them all at once, only one by one.

please tel me this is a planned feature coming like next week...

I could't use cloud earlier and now I have almost hundreds  files to transfer...

 

Is there a way to transfer them on a Mac HD?

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On 11/29/2021 at 2:25 PM, MEB said:

I'm assuming you have all the files stored in the app's sandbox area (inside the app). Can you confirm that please?

This is correct 

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As said above, there's no way to save/transfer all files stored in the app's sandbox area at once, so they must be saved one by one. This is the safest method:
1. Open each file individually, tap the document icon on top left of the interface and select Save a Copy. This method has the advantage of asking you where you want to save the file - select "On My 
iPad > Affinity Photo folder. Save all files to there. Assuming you are using macOS Monterey on your Mac, connect the iPad to your Mac via an USB cable, you should see your iPad appearing on the sidebar in Finder, select it, click the Files tab on top right so you can see files (not Music, Movies etc), select the Affinity Photo folder, then drag all the files you saved there to another folder on your Mac.

2. The less safer method is saving the files in the app's sandbox area clicking the small menu icon on the bottom of each project thumbnail and selecting Save. This may be problematic because it doesn't ask you where you want to save the files and instead saves them automatically to either iCloud (if you have originally opened a file from there to work on, rather than importing it) or to your "On My iPad" area (if you have created the files/project from scratch or have opened them from your iPad storage (not iCloud) and have Affinity Photo iOS Default Save Location set to On My iPad in the General section in Preferences. The rest of the process to transfer the files to your Mac is similar to what i described for point 1 above.

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On 12/2/2021 at 2:00 PM, MEB said:

As said above, there's no way to save/transfer all files stored in the app's sandbox area at once, so they must be saved one by one. This is the safest method:
1. Open each file individually, tap the document icon on top left of the interface and select Save a Copy. This method has the advantage of asking you where you want to save the file - select "On My 
iPad > Affinity Photo folder. Save all files to there. Assuming you are using macOS Monterey on your Mac, connect the iPad to your Mac via an USB cable, you should see your iPad appearing on the sidebar in Finder, select it, click the Files tab on top right so you can see files (not Music, Movies etc), select the Affinity Photo folder, then drag all the files you saved there to another folder on your Mac.

2. The less safer method is saving the files in the app's sandbox area clicking the small menu icon on the bottom of each project thumbnail and selecting Save. This may be problematic because it doesn't ask you where you want to save the files and instead saves them automatically to either iCloud (if you have originally opened a file from there to work on, rather than importing it) or to your "On My iPad" area (if you have created the files/project from scratch or have opened them from your iPad storage (not iCloud) and have Affinity Photo iOS Default Save Location set to On My iPad in the General section in Preferences. The rest of the process to transfer the files to your Mac is similar to what i described for point 1 above.

Sorry to double ask but this is pretty urgent to me and I have to fix this within few hours, since I’m selling my iPad.

are all the project and files stored in the iPad general backup?

 

thank you!

Posted
9 hours ago, NevraArts said:

since I’m selling my iPad.

are all the project and files stored in the iPad general backup?

Are you getting a new iPad?

If not, whether they are stored in the "general backup" may be irrelevant. I have never seen the format of the sandbox files described, and we do not know that they are usable on anything but an iPad. That is, in their sandbox format, they may not be normal .afdesign or .afphoto files, but something only the iPad apps understand. Or they may only be usable on an iPad after a full restore.

Perhaps @MEB can address that.

In your situation, I would be saving the files, as suggested above.

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Posted
50 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Are you getting a new iPad?

If not, whether they are stored in the "general backup" may be irrelevant. I have never seen the format of the sandbox files described, and we do not know that they are usable on anything but an iPad. That is, in their sandbox format, they may not be normal .afdesign or .afphoto files, but something only the iPad apps understand. Or they may only be usable on an iPad after a full restore.

Perhaps @MEB can address that.

In your situation, I would be saving the files, as suggested above.

I am getting a new iPad yes, but apparently another user said that files are not stored in the backup…

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