OrangeEmpress Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Can Affinity photo be connected to external hard drives for extra space? If not, is it being considered for future updates? I don't have a lot of computer space and I'm looking to switch from adobe and buy affinity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarryP Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Welcome to the forums @OrangeEmpress Can you explain more about what you mean by “connected to”? Also, which operating system are you using and where would you be purchasing your licence for the software from (Serif or an OS app store)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 You can open and save files from/to external drives as you please. You though have no control over scratch disks, I suppose system handles that part and uses just startup disk for scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy05 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 2 hours ago, Fixx said: You can open and save files from/to external drives as you please. You though have no control over scratch disks, I suppose system handles that part and uses just startup disk for scratch. Yes, opening and saving files from/to external drives is possible. But I'd strongly recommend, that you don't work on files which are stored on external drives. There are numerous reports in these fora about lost and/or broken files due to the kind-of incremental saving feature of the Affinity apps. RichardMH 1 Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 hours ago, Andy05 said: But I'd strongly recommend, that you don't work on files which are stored on external drives. There are reports abut Networked Drives. I don't recall any reports where the problem was a non network external drive. i have had no problems with corrupted files and I use the external Hard drive almost exclusively for my affinity documents as well as all the various camera raw files. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.4 Affinity Designer 2.4.1 | Affinity Photo 2.4.1 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.1 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy05 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 15 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: There are reports abut Networked Drives. I don't recall any reports where the problem was a non network external drive. i have had no problems with corrupted files and I use the external Hard drive almost exclusively for my affinity documents as well as all the various camera raw files. Well, good for you then. I lost several hours of work when using an external USB drive in the beginning. Maybe there haven't been reports in these fora (haven't checked), but I had quite some users reporting corrupt files with USB drives at facebook or reddit. Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 3 hours ago, Andy05 said: Well, good for you then. I lost several hours of work when using an external USB drive in the beginning. Maybe there haven't been reports in these fora (haven't checked), but I had quite some users reporting corrupt files with USB drives at facebook or reddit. Do you man USB connected conventional HD's or SSD's, or USB sticks (AKA thumb drives)? The later are notorious for corrupting files after relatively few writes. Old Bruce 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 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...
Andy05 Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 2 hours ago, R C-R said: Do you man USB connected conventional HD's or SSD's, or USB sticks (AKA thumb drives)? The later are notorious for corrupting files after relatively few writes. Yes, USB (3.x) connected 2 TB Seagate conventional HDD (no SSD) in a standard external casing. Works without issues when copying stuff from and onto it, even huge files. Speed and error diagnose programs don't show any problems, even when run over night. Short, expensive/quality cables (no cheap $1 china USB connection cables with 10ft+ length). Quote »A designer's job is to improve the general quality of life. In fact, it's the only reason for our existence.«Paul Rand (1914-1996) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardMH Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 Usual solution is to use the internal drive as a working drive and move files to external drives when finished. I have 2 identical external drives for this. Andy05 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeEmpress Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 15 hours ago, GarryP said: Welcome to the forums @OrangeEmpress @GarryP I mean like scratch disks like how in Adobe you can connect external drives to the scratch disks for more storage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted June 15, 2022 Share Posted June 15, 2022 20 minutes ago, OrangeEmpress said: There is no option to specify/employ scratch disks in Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer nor Affinity Publisher, you would need to manage the disk space the Affinity products are installed on. Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeEmpress Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 Thanks @firstdefence I don't have much internal space on my computer so I was curious about additional storage. Hopefully that becomes a future update tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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