Is there no better way to reorder Asset Subcategories? Am I using too many assets?

[Jtyoung510]

Hi all,

So it's frustrating to me that every time I have to add a new subcategory to an asset category, I have to click "move up" 15 times to get it into alphabetical order.  There's the "sort categories" button but not one for the subcategories? Am I missing something?

My other thought was that maybe I'm overusing assets because I have essentially "Nature" category" and then like 20 subcategories or like water, planets, clouds, etc. Today I realized I had a lot of bees made, so I wanted to sort them to a "Bee" subcategory, so it took a lot of "Move Up."

Hopefully theres a better way to do this and I'm missing it.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Jtyoung510 said:

Am I missing something?

Not so far as I can tell. Annoying, is it not? 

[walt.farrell]

It will be even more annoying if the assets.propcol file that holds all the assets breaks, and you have to redo that work.

I hope you're making good backups of that file to make restoration simple when breakage occurs.

[Jtyoung510]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

It will be even more annoying if the assets.propcol file that holds all the assets breaks, and you have to redo that work.

I hope you're making good backups of that file to make restoration simple when breakage occurs.

I regularly export my assets to my iCloud because I work on my iPad as well.  Is there another way I should be saving these?

[thomaso]

Assets …
… do not transfer colour swatches,
… convert linked images to embedded ones and
… must not include 'container' file formats (e.g. Affinity documents, PDF, EPS).

At least the last two restrictions can be circumvented by using an Affinity document as an asset library instead (+ copy/paste).
Additionally, this workaround allows to re-order items & pages easily, add comments, zoom for preview, don't need to get exported for sharing, can get saved as package with all items … but "just" is no panel in the UI.

[walt.farrell]

10 hours ago, Jtyoung510 said:

I regularly export my assets to my iCloud because I work on my iPad as well.  Is there another way I should be saving these?

The FAQ below will tell you where the assets.propcol file is stored. For local backup/recovery purposes it can be helpful to keep a copy of it, too. Then when an error occurs you can simply restore that copy instead of needing to restore each individual asset category. But backing up the individual categories, too, as you're already doing is also a good practice.