Affinity Publisher & MacOs Photos App

[uselessuser]

While designing a book with Publisher I like to import my images mostly from my Photos app library.

Doing so is a pain as it it seems like the abilty to do so is pretty random.
Sometimes the library appears in the media section and and sometime it doesn't - without of changing anything.
Even worse is, that sometimes the library appears and after a few seconds it disappears again.

This behaviour is not solved by restarts.

MacOs 12.6
M1 MacMini

Affinity Publisher 1.10.5

 

[v_kyr]

See & try out ...

• Stalling & Lagging in Affinity Photo with M1 MacBook Pro / Apple Silicon? Check this fix out...
• [KNOWN ISSUE] Affinity apps have performance issues on macOS Monterey

... you may want instead to place the needed image resources under a folder of your APub project, for linking or embedding then.

See also:

• Packaging
  • About packaging
  • Creating packages
  • Opening packages
• Placing external content
  • Embedding vs linking
  • Placing content
  • Picture frames
  • Resource Manager

[thomaso]

I don't use the Apple photo folder & library (it contains just 2 jpgs), so I just guess / wonder …

a.) whether you have activated access rights for Affinity as required: https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchl244f2895/mac

b.) or whether the hint in the "Place..." dialog of APub (10.14.6. Mojave) "Open Photos to see ..."  is because I have not set a.) accordingly. (Just opening the app doesn't make a difference here)

[uselessuser]

I can't ativate access rights for Affinity as it doesn't appear in the corresponding settings (unlike the Adobe SW).

As I wrote sometimes I can use the library and sometimes not. When the dialog is open I can just click on another folder and go back to "Media" - after 2 & 3 attemps i can select images from the library.

[thomaso]

11 minutes ago, uselessuser said:

I can't ativate access rights for Affinity as it doesn't appear in the corresponding settings (unlike the Adobe SW).

As I wrote sometimes I can use the library and sometimes not.

This system preference appears confusing to me, too: It offers C1, ID & LR but not Photoshop and APub & APhoto but not ADesign.
– Do you have set one of the two optional limitations offered in "Weitere Optionen …" ?

[uselessuser]

No, the shown options are not activated.

Unlike on your mac on my computer Affinity Publisher doesn't appear in the list.

[thomaso]

I did another trial in AD for "Place…" with "Photos" selected and got new, different events in the dialog that also made AD appear in the access list now. – It seems that Affinity has to "require access" to make its apps appear in the security list. – So it is strange if you experience it as working in APub occasionally without having APub in this list.

• How about other Affinity apps in this list on your mac?

EDIT:  Have you tried to reset permissions for your user "Home" folder in macOS?
https://eclecticlight.co/2020/03/28/apple-has-changed-resetting-permissions-again/

A more recent article "Should we ever repair permissions" (2022) by the same author is perhaps more interesting, especially its final reference: "Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: «Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.«" … which I understand as Apple wants users less than before to repair permissions – while it remains unclear in what situations it can help or not:

https://eclecticlight.co/2022/01/27/should-you-ever-repair-permissions/

Edited October 9, 2022 by thomaso