Why no file preview when opening afdesign file from within Affinity Designer?

[RobKlein]

When in affinity photo, and I need to find a file, and I have many files, I goto the folder I think the file will be in, and as I select a pdf or jpg file, even a png or ai file, i can see a file preview in my window, but if I select a native .afdesign file, there is no preview....this doesn't sound right. Is this an oversight or a bug or is there a setting to turn this on? right now I have to open each file to check, this is time consuming...many files...

windows 10

thanks!

Rob

[carl123]

You should be seeing previews; do you see previews of your native .afphoto files?

[MEB]

Hi @RobKlein;
Are the files stored in folders synchronised by MS OneDrive? If you move a couple to a folder that's not synchronised does they display the preview? If i remember correctly files stored inMS OneDrive folder do not display previews.

[RobKlein]

Yes, I am using MS OneDrive. ugh...

and yes, I moved an AD file to my desktop and low and behold, there is a preview.

good call, but what now?

is this something that is being worked on or blame it on Microsoft and there's nothing Serif can do?

thanks for the quick insights!

Rob

 

[MEB]

I'm afraid there's nothing we can do here, sorry.