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I have literally spent all day adding to and organizing my assets library in Affinity Photo. AP then crashes, which it seems to be doing A LOT lately, and when I finally got it to re open over half of my assets are not in there? I have looked all over the internet and there seems to be multiple issues with assets. Does anyone in here know if there is a fix or some way to recover all of the work I did today?

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I have only an advice to avoid future damage: assets can be exported, and you should use the export function frequently, and backup the files. If you modify asset libraries, keep at least one exported file of the old version until you tested that the library works.

There is an open bug specifically corrupting the asset library itself, so that only resetting the library to factory makes it usable again.

 

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Hi @Paul N Carter,

We're certainly very sorry to hear any data has been lost - we've seen previously that if the Affinity app crashes when adding or creating Assets, certain information in the Assets file can no longer be accessible, or not saved with the file at all, causing corruption.

Our team are working to reduce the frequency of such crashes occurring, as it's rare that data is lost but we absolutely understand the frustrations this can cause.

I'd like to double check to se if any backup files of your Assets exist. To do this, please open Windows Run (Windows Key + R) then paste the following string and press OK:

%AppData%\Affinity\Photo\1.0\user

In the window that opens, you should see 'assets.propcol', and potentially 'assets.propcol_backup1', for example. Can you please attach all 'assets' files from this location here for me?

Many thanks in advance!

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