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Hi, I am trying to get DNG images to open from Faststone to Affinity Photo but keep getting the message The file was not found yet when I drag the same image into AP from Faststone it opens it.

As a follow up question what do you use outside Lightroom?

Thankyou,

Russ.

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15 minutes ago, Russ W said:

I am trying to get DNG images to open from Faststone to Affinity Photo but keep getting the message The file was not found

Did you have to configure Faststone in some way? If so, you've probably made a mistake in that configuration. And in that case, a screenshot of the configuration dialog may help us figure it out.

-- Walt
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18 minutes ago, Russ W said:

I am trying to get DNG images to open from Faststone to Affinity Photo but keep getting the message The file was not found yet when I drag the same image into AP from Faststone it opens it.

For me not problem - Open via Context menu Edit with External Program.

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24 minutes ago, Russ W said:

getting the message The file was not found

Screenshot with this message?

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Your final screenshot seems to have two messages in it. What does the one in back say? 

And how did you configure Faststone to invoke Photo?

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I am unfamiliar with both Faststone and Windows but I am curious as to what is in this fly-out.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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The error message speaks quite clearly - the definition of the file to be opened in the APhoto application is missing.

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FastStone must be configured as follows:
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Edited by Pšenda

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40 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I am unfamiliar with both Faststone and Windows but I am curious as to what is in this fly-out.

Any external applications you may want to use to edit/view said file.

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It has to be your setup, the file seems to be missing.  I've been using Image Viewer and Affinity Photos for years without any problem.

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Once more... I am unfamiliar with these things, but shouldn't the selected file's name be at the end of the file path?

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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It is definitely something in your setup, I use Faststone to Affinity Photo as my workflow (for 5 years) and it works flawlessly. You need to add AP in the edit in external program dialog, it must point to the exact program path on your drive.

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5 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Once more... I am unfamiliar with these things, but shouldn't the selected file's name be at the end of the file path?

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No, this just shows the current folder of the files that you are viewing.

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1 hour ago, Russ W said:

Sorry people but I do not understand what you mean by File Name all my files are Sony ARW

Did you see my previous post where there is a screenshot with the configuration of the external program in FastStone? Either set up your app the same, or as Walt already wrote, show a screenshot of your setup.

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  • 2 months later...

Hi, sorry to jump in on this conversation, but I've just recently put Affinity 2 and faststone image viewer on my PC (finally ditched Adobe) I found this conversation as I'm trying to link the 2 together so I can edit using external program, I've gone into settings but can't fathom out how to do it,  can anyone give me step by step guidance please ?

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Hi, OK open Faststone, go to Settings from top bar next to Help, Click on Programs when open click ADD button, I am on Windows so I go to C drive Program files, Affinity, open Affinity/Photo and down at the bottom you should see Photo Application click on that and open when box pops up just click OK.  Russ.

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1 hour ago, Russ W said:

Hi, OK open Faststone, go to Settings from top bar next to Help, Click on Programs when open click ADD button, I am on Windows so I go to C drive Program files, Affinity, open Affinity/Photo and down at the bottom you should see Photo Application click on that and open when box pops up just click OK.  Russ.

That works for Photo V1, but would not work for Photo 2 which you can't locate that way.

-- Walt
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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.
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This is an old thread. The issue has been thrashed to death in several recent threads some containing hundreds of posts.

Workarounds are simple as we wait until Affinity issues a new MSI installer.

See my post and follow the links in it for concise summaries.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/172570-link-to-exe-file-from-third-part-apps/#comment-990843

Two solutions for Faststone and by extension some others are at

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/171600-no-exe-no-interest/page/2/#comment-989182

 

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  • 9 months later...

Another thread full of non-solutions because affinity can never admit to losing its grip.

The problem is every V2 update dumps the source file in the wrong place with the wrong permissions.  

They wisely did not do this with V1 which is why it worked with faststone.

Now we have to faf around in permissions after every update😠

I really regret paying for this crap

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6 hours ago, Chimes said:

The problem is every V2 update dumps the source file in the wrong place with the wrong permissions.  

Yes, that's the principle of MSIX installation, which complicates the external launch. For these cases it is therefore advisable to use MSI/EXE installation (this is mentioned many times on the forum).

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