rich709 Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 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 1 Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich709 Posted February 6, 2022 Author Share Posted February 6, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 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. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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