Christian Schröter Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Does batch conversion from Affinity Photo work in trial mode? Ive set up everything correctly … but the button to start conversion is inactive. I have to try it out before buying it … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Welcome to the forums @Christian Schröter The trial versions of the software should be fully functional for the entire length of the trial period. I can’t help you with this particular function – it don’t use it myself – but if you can tell us the steps you are following then someone else should be able to advise. A full-screen screenshot showing the software at the ‘problem point’ is usually useful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Hello @Christian Schröter and welcome to the forums. The trial version has no restrictions, except for the time limit. Can you make a screenshot from the batch windows, please? Quote AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 23H2 (22631.3296) AMD A10-9600P | dGPU R7 M340 (2 GB) | 8 GB DDR4 2133 MHz | Windows 10 Home 22H2 (1945.3803) Affinity Suite V 2.4 & Beta 2.(latest) Better translations with: https://www.deepl.com/translator Interested in a robust (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Life is too short to have meaningless discussions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Schröter Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 Okay, thank you. Now … the conversion is very, very slow. It’s not a real batch conversion … it imports all metadata, filenames and paths and thumbnails first … in a batch conversion I would define rules and then apply them to e. g. a folder … I have about 100.000 or more files in that folder and its subfolders … after half an hour of waiting I’ve killed the task … seemingly the finder can’t cope with this amount of files … Maybe i’ll have to convert each subfolder for itself … The task is: I have an archive with print magazine data from 20 years and I want to convert all high quality separated JPEGs (CMYK) to RGB with highest compression (lowest quality) for I won’t ever need them again, I just want to see SOMETHING … to reduce storage capacity … Sorry for my bad English … hopefully it’s understandable … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Schröter Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 By the way: the problem with the inactive button was, that I did not recognize, that Affinity Photo has to »authorize« itself at the target volume … I’ve never seen something like that … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Affinity Photo is not a suitable solution for what you want to achieve. Use a dedicated batch processing application that's specialized on handling large amounts of files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Schröter Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 Well … someone told me so … but which application is suitable? I’ve tested some … nothing works … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 I don't have any personal experience with converting that many files, but it would probably help to know which applications you've tested and what you mean by "nothing works". Also, what operating system do you use? Are the files you want to convert located on a network drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Schröter Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 It’s way too much to write it all down … each App has a specific problem why it doesn’t work … they’re on a local drive … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffeeundsalz Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 Try ImageMagick where it shouldn't matter how many files you throw at it. You need to be familiar with the command line though. Provided that you work on a Mac, you could also try GraphicConverter if you prefer a GUI solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 I would try XnConvert – https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 9 hours ago, Christian Schröter said: By the way: the problem with the inactive button was, that I did not recognize, that Affinity Photo has to »authorize« itself at the target volume … I’ve never seen something like that … So does that mean you have solved the problem & this works for you now? Note that on Macs the "Authorize..." button only has to be done once. As I understand it, the reason for this has to do with the sandboxing requirements imposed by Apple -- users must explicitly authorize overwriting files saved to a location other apps might also have access to. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.2 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...
v_kyr Posted December 11, 2021 Share Posted December 11, 2021 6 hours ago, Christian Schröter said: … each App has a specific problem why it doesn’t work … App in the sense of GUI apps or command line apps (cli tools) which are executed by a shell process? For about "100.000 or more files in a folder and its subfolders" it might be slightly inefficient and oversized to throw such batch conversion tasks into GUI apps. Those will need a bunch more of memory and have to sync a lot of file handle processing here then. That's probably better done in smaller sized chunks for those. Even when doing such a task via the command line in a shell I would partition these conversion tasks as several in the background processed/running tasks. Things like ImageMagick are indeed better suited for such mass file conversion tasks, though even here it needs some preparations and pretesting if all files can be OS security and permission wise accessed and if there is free enough storage HDD/SSD size available for temporary file caching. Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Schröter Posted December 11, 2021 Author Share Posted December 11, 2021 »So does that mean you have solved the problem & this works for you now?« No … it does not. It’s way too slow, doesn’t work with subfolders properly and can’t handle that much files … because it’s not a real batch concept … I have a very other solution on another level of the given problem (as described), but that takes time and is much work … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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