Designer Assets

[rich709]

Designer just crashed while I was trying to store a newly created asset.  It shut down, and when I opened it up again, all my assets are gone.  I mean everything I've ever stored.  Is there a way to recover them? I'm on Windows.  I've looked in AppData/Roaming/Affinity/Designer, but can't see any *.afasset files there.

If it can't be recovered, let that be a lesson to everyone.  Back up your stuff.  Over a year's worth of design elements gone in a second.  

 

[walt.farrell]

19 minutes ago, rich709 said:

I've looked in AppData/Roaming/Affinity/Designer, but can't see any *.afasset files there.

All assets are stored in one file named assets.propcol a couple of directories lower than that one (... \1.0\user).

And it can get very large, and can be lost if an error happens while it's being written.

If you keep good system backups, perhaps you can recover that for from them.

[rich709]

42 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

All assets are stored in one file named assets.propcol a couple of directories lower than that one (... \1.0\user).

And it can get very large, and can be lost if an error happens while it's being written.

If you keep good system backups, perhaps you can recover that for from them.

Okay, I've found the assets.propcol file, and its where you said it would be, but how do I get it into Designer?  You can't import it through the assets panel.  Actually, since its where its supposed to be, presumably Designer reads it on opening, so I guess if its there, and it doesn't import assets, then they're gone?

I do have a backup of afasset files (which I could import), but its not very recent and so lots of stuff is missing from it.  😕

Thanks for responding btw.  

 

R.

 

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

Your best bet is if you actually backup your full system regularly, in which case just move the most recent assets.propcol file you backed-up into that directory.