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I have an iPad Pro 256GB and my Affinity Designer is saying its using 346GB and crashing my iPad because it thinks it out of space! I deleted 5gb of videos to free up space but Affinity ate all that space up in 2 mins.

How to I move my projects to iCloud so I can delete my app and reinstall it? Is this the best method to fix this storage problem?

There is an Affinity Designer folder in "On My iPad" but there are only 4 old projects in there. I have over 100 projects and I cant seen to locate them on my iPad. Shouldn't they all be saved in that folder? 

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Hi Thumper,

By default, files are saved within the sandbox of the app not in the "On My iPad" folder. You can open any documents and use Save As....  to save these into an external location such as this folder or iCloud, each subsequent save will then overwrite that file.

Lee

 

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@LeeThorpe: Am I also correct in thinking that it is not safe to rely on the Affinity Designer folder in "On My iPad"? If a user removes the Designer application from the iPad, doesn't that folder get removed, too?

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
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10 minutes ago, dmtp14 said:

what is advisable?

You automatically get folders named "Affinity Photo" and "Affinity Designer" in On My iPad when you install those applications. Those automatically created folders will be deleted if you delete the respective application.

But you should be able to make your own folder in On My iPad (just keep it outside those folders), such as "my files" or whatever you want to name it. Files saved there should be safe, though it would still be good to backup your iPad periodically.

Edit: However, if you don't use some Cloud service, and don't attach any external storage to your iPad, then it will fill probably up at some point.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

You automatically get folders named "Affinity Photo" and "Affinity Designer" in On My iPad when you install those applications. Those automatically created folders will be deleted if you delete the respective application.

But you should be able to make your own folder in On My iPad (just keep it outside those folders), such as "my files" or whatever you want to name it. Files saved there should be safe, though it would still be good to backup your iPad periodically.

Edit: However, if you don't use some Cloud service, and don't attach any external storage to your iPad, then it will fill probably up at some point.

Thank you Walt! I do backups via Itunes on my mac and external storage devices…but nevertheless you are right, it fills up🙂

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18 hours ago, dmtp14 said:

Thank you Walt! I do backups via Itunes on my mac and external storage devices…but nevertheless you are right, it fills up🙂

You really should use a cloud service, iCloud is the best as it frees up lots of space on you iPad and saves you having to upgrade prematurely just because it gets full. With Optimise storage, your iPad will never fill so long as you have a larger iCoud than the capacity of you iPad. iCloud is much cheaper, easier, automatic than having to purchase  new hardware, new external storage etc.

 

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4 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

You really should use a cloud service, iCloud is the best as it frees up lots of space on you iPad and saves you having to upgrade prematurely just because it gets full. With Optimise storage, your iPad will never fill so long as you have a larger iCoud than the capacity of you iPad. iCloud is much cheaper, easier, automatic than having to purchase  new hardware, new external storage etc.

I know that you do recommend this, have read it here in the forum, but nevertheless,no, I wont use icloud for a few reasons. as a pro photographer and now digital artist I've managed my amounts of data during the years quite well... I just didnt know that "save on my ipad" is not advisable...still seems quite strange to me, but ok

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14 minutes ago, dmtp14 said:

I just didnt know that "save on my ipad" is not advisable.

Saving on the iPad is fine (except that the iPad will fill).

What is not advisable is saving in the Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo folders that are created when you install the applications. If you ever have to remove and reinstall the applications, the contents of those specific folders will be lost.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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19 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Saving on the iPad is fine (except that the iPad will fill).

What is not advisable is saving in the Affinity Designer or Affinity Photo folders that are created when you install the applications. If you ever have to remove and reinstall the applications, the contents of those specific folders will be lost.

thank you, now I see the problem....if I move the afdesign files to another folder on the ipad, will later changes in my documents still be saved?

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4 minutes ago, dmtp14 said:

thank you, now I see the problem....if I move the afdesign files to another folder on the ipad, will later changes in my documents still be saved?

I haven't tried that. If you move them using the Files app, and then Open or Import them again from their new location using the Affinity app, I think the answer is yes. 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
    Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2,  16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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On 10/22/2022 at 7:03 AM, dmtp14 said:

thank you, now I see the problem....if I move the afdesign files to another folder on the ipad, will later changes in my documents still be saved

Yes, provided you use Open from,and navigate to the new folder. This creates a new working file on Home screen. The old working file (project icon on Home Screen), if not deleted, links to the old file location. Also note it is necessary to use Save to update folder versions as backing out to Home Screen only saves sandbox version.🙂

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