Affinity designer problems.... exporting images and files

[T-shirt printer]

Hi Guys, been using Affinity for a couple of years now and love it, but just lately been having issues with designer and a new macbook pro M1.

My first issue seems to be exporting a file - I've just finished making a thumb nail image for youtube and what to export it as jpeg to my desktop, it allows me to choose size of file and file type, but when I click export, just seems to do nothing and sadly I can't find the file anywhere on the my machine.

The second issue, now is seems I can't open a file, I have to copy and paste an image into designer. It wont also let me place and image within a open art board.

Can anyone please help? I'm using 1.10.4

Many Thanks, Mark

[v_kyr]

I assume you are using MacOS Monterey then. - Sounds strange, I would check for possible Affinity security settings under Monterey, if it has permissions to read/write files and access rights to certain folders!

[Lee D]

@T-shirt printer Something else to check just in case, in macOS, open System Preferences > General and set the Recent items list to None.