Affinity Photo and Designer Slow saving files

[Affinity Rat]

I recently noticed how slow A Pho and A Dez took to save a file on my iPad! 
The reason was, in file manager I had a link to my desktop that wasn’t available, so it had to “time out” that connection even though I was saving on my iPad locally. 

Going to iPad file manager, and de-linking on the non functional link to my desktop resolved it, and saves took less than a second instead of >2 minutes.

The iPad is great for Affinity apps, but Apple constantly force users into the Apple ecosystem with flakey connections and intentionally creating file bloat to use the iCloud. After deleting gb of files my iCloud usage goes up not down. Apple have great hardware, but horrible user unfriendly software.

Affinity doing great work with iPad apps, given Apples chains regarding restrictions to iPad file access.

 

 

[Paul Mudditt]

6 hours ago, Affinity Rat said:

I recently noticed how slow A Pho and A Dez took to save a file on my iPad! 
The reason was, in file manager I had a link to my desktop that wasn’t available, so it had to “time out” that connection even though I was saving on my iPad locally. 

Going to iPad file manager, and de-linking on the non functional link to my desktop resolved it, and saves took less than a second instead of >2 minutes.

The iPad is great for Affinity apps, but Apple constantly force users into the Apple ecosystem with flakey connections and intentionally creating file bloat to use the iCloud. After deleting gb of files my iCloud usage goes up not down. Apple have great hardware, but horrible user unfriendly software.

Affinity doing great work with iPad apps, given Apples chains regarding restrictions to iPad file access.

 

 

Links to an external device from any type of portable device whether be it Apple related or Microsoft related are always going to cause problems as the system re - tries the connection so as not lose any data that may be in transit. Immediately dropping the link because of a disturbance is a sure way to make a link unreliable. Links between devices which are permanently connected to a network rarely cause problems, again whether they are Apple or Microsoft devices.

Personally I simply use iCloud to share all my work with all my devices, job done, and lots of space saved on each device avoiding the need to upgrade early.

[Affinity Rat]

 

9 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Links to an external device from any type of portable device whether be it Apple related or Microsoft related are always going to cause problems as the system re - tries the connection so as not lose any data that may be in transit. Immediately dropping the link because of a disturbance is a sure way to make a link unreliable.
 

Seems like the OS knows where you are attempting to save and wouldnt care about establishing links not relevant in the task its trying to perform. Is what you are saying that the moment file management is invoked, all connections are  confirmed prior to the action requested? This makes no sense to me, and very likely fraught with problems.

I have much more space on my desktop than the cloud.

I dont need permanent links, it appears I need to delink immediately after using. Waiting minutes for a save is unacceptable, and I refuse to rely on the Cloud. The Apple products make file management very difficult, deletions and crops make Cloud storage to increase. After increasing my cloud quota it was immediately more than half full, and I hadnt saved anything new, just copying everything from Ipad to cloud. This requires either I selectively go thru the laborious task of trying to limit what is saved there. Apple try to force users to synchronize iPad with the cloud in lieu of a place to store important select user created files. 
 

My Affinity products have many >30 gigabytes in the sand box, is that in the cloud somewhere? I know that many of these are no longer in the Affinity browser. Apple provide so few tools to control what is taking up space on the cloud. Apples attitude is clear, just upgrade storage, this leaves very bad taste in my mouth that the company coerces its users into giving Apple more money.

[Affinity Rat]

The approach to maintaining permanent links maybe justified for desktops, but is just plain stupid for mobile devices.

Afterall what was a mobile device designed for?, and why do people use them?

 

12 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Links to an external device from any type of portable device whether be it Apple related or Microsoft related are always going to cause problems as the system re - tries the connection so as not lose any data that may be in transit. Immediately dropping the link because of a disturbance is a sure way to make a link unreliable.
 

Seems like the OS knows where you are attempting to save and wouldnt care about establishing links not relevant in the task its trying to perform. Is what you are saying that the moment file management is invoked, all connections are  confirmed prior to the action requested? This makes no sense to me, and very likely fraught with problems.

I have much more space on my desktop than the cloud.

I dont need permanent links, it appears I need to delink immediately after using. Waiting minutes for a save is unacceptable, and I refuse to rely on the Cloud. The Apple products make file management very difficult, deletions and crops make Cloud storage to increase. After increasing my cloud quota it was immediately more than half full, and I hadnt saved anything new, just copying everything from Ipad to cloud. This requires either I selectively go thru the laborious task of trying to limit what is saved there. Apple try to force users to synchronize iPad with the cloud in lieu of a place to store important select user created files. 
 

My Affinity products have many >30 gigabytes in the sand box, is that in the cloud somewhere? I know that many of these are no longer in the Affinity browser. Apple provide so few tools to control what is taking up space on the cloud. Apples attitude is clear, just upgrade storage, this leaves very bad taste in my mouth that the company coerces its users into giving Apple more money.

[Paul Mudditt]

@Affinity RatSorry your experience of iCloud I do not recognise, I never have to copy from my iPad to iCloud drive.  I use the 2TB option shared with my family which is more than adequate for my 200GB in iCloud Drive and 450 GB in Apple Photos. If you are familiar with network server storage as I used to use before retirement, iCloud is not a backup or transfer system, it is my main file storage repository which I access from all my devices wherever I am in the world. Yes I do have further local storage on my Mac that is not in the iCloud, but all current files and raw photos I may need are located there. 

[Affinity Rat]

Paul, glad to hear it works well for you, that may work well if you can afford unlimited cloud space, and rely on the cloud for virtually (pardon the pun) everything. I think in general, people who have to pay for the service, hate the subscription business model.

This is one of the primary strengths of Affinity products. Many IT companies try to lure people in to become total invested in a platform only to later change the business model. The change is so disruptive and costly that that people pay.

I dont want to be in that position where I become entirely invested in both time, money and resources at the mercy of a companies ecosystem that is completely out of my control. These companies give no assurances of maintaining the status quo, with regard to the business model.

I feel the lack of file management tools and transparency dont speak well for what Apple is up to.

It would seem you are not at all concerned about storage, an Apple preferred customer, and thus happy with Apples MO.

 

Regards

AR

 

[Affinity Rat]

 

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The approach to maintaining permanent links maybe justified for desktops, but is just plain stupid for mobile devices.

Afterall what was a mobile device designed for?, and why do people use them?

 

Paul, if for some reason you wanted to stop paying (perhaps a 1 year hiatus) or leave altogether how would you access your content,

 or just continue paying for something you are no longer using?

 

[Affinity Rat]

Adobe clearly target business customers, within the past few years seemingly leaning toward subscription based models for everything, this creates a huge niche for Affinity products, allowing non commercial artists tools otherwise inaccessible. Kudos for Seriff.

 

[Paul Mudditt]

50 minutes ago, Affinity Rat said:

 

 

Paul, if for some reason you wanted to stop paying (perhaps a 1 year hiatus) or leave altogether how would you access your content,

 or just continue paying for something you are no longer using?

 

The cost of a beer a month, I don’t miss it. Much cheaper than I used to pay for duplicated hard drives after 40 years of Dos/Window nightmares/shenanigans.  I do also archive to a local Mac disk at regular intervals, no great problem.

[Affinity Rat]

Dang! you dont drink much do ya!

I’ve had a beer subscription for 40 years, dont mind that paying for that tho!  
Beer is transparent, seldom causes flakey connections, but will resolve itself by the next day.