Import from Designer on iPad to Designer 2?

[seloran]

19 minutes ago, fernelius said:

 

Very likely you can go back and re-install V1 even though it’s not available for purchase.  Try going into App Store, tap on your profile in the top right (for me it’s the picture assigned to the account), and click on Purchased.  You can search for Affinity, and the old version of the app should show.  Click on that and install.  Hopefully, that will make your old iCloud files visible in the old version.

Thanks. I actually reinstalled via the purchased section that day, but I think since I had disabled saving to iCloud before, there was no data to retrieve. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[DM1]

53 minutes ago, seloran said:

there was no data to retrieve.

Do you have a backup of your iPad that you can restore from?

[seloran]

14 hours ago, DM1 said:

Do you have a backup of your iPad that you can restore from?

I have neglected to back up the Designer app folder and don't use iCloud backup, so I think they may be lost forever unless I try out some 3rd party recovery tools.

Anyways, it's not the end of the world as I only lost several projects I wasn't really planning on working on again anyway., And I don't want to derail this thread more than necessary 😅

Thanks for your concern.

[DM1]

On 11/12/2022 at 12:17 AM, seloran said:

but I personally would like to not have my local files be deleted either just to be safe and in case I can't download my files from iCloud via the internet at the time.

Just use Files app to copy or move them to a folder of your own choice. It’s always a good idea to back up files (preferably to a different location) so if your iPad is lost/broken you can still access copies of your work.

[Jack Fancy]

On 11/11/2022 at 6:45 PM, Peter vB said:

Well, after 10 hours of constant click click swipe swipe I have all my old v1 files in AP2.
Started 5:30pm and was ready around 3:30am.
After a 7 hour sleep I can still feel it in my right hand

Question:

My standard saving location is in de AP(2) folder on my iPad.
If I would choose to save them to iCloud instead, would those iCloud files still disappear when I ever delete my AP2 application?
with other words: do I need to save an extra copy outside of the Affinity Photo folders?
What is best practice?

…and I thought the 600 files I just individually tapped to save was nuts.

[Jack Fancy]

Oh, and I’ve got to redo all my folders again! 
Well, as long as I don’t have to do this again in my lifetime!

[rtteachr]

6 hours ago, Jack Fancy said:

Oh, and I’ve got to redo all my folders again! 
Well, as long as I don’t have to do this again in my lifetime!

You’re assuming it changes for Affinity 3.0

[Pierre-]

For affinity’s developers :  It should be possible to do it : as it was done by the developers from Good Notes. When they’ve released their main update, creating like you another sandboxed app, at the launch of their « v2 » was a prompt « Would you like to import projects from the previous version ? » and it was done. 

[Jack Fancy]

So, after saving 600 individual files from Designer 1 to the Files app, I open a floating window over Designer 2, select and drag and drop to import.

I tried all, knowing it was probably too much… it was.

I tried half, still too much, crashed again.

I tried 20, crashed.

I can do 5 to 10 without incident but now with the supersize icons, finding where the duplicate files stopped is quite the chore.

[Jack Fancy]

Is there a quicker way to bulk save files or move files to new folders or do I have to move and save each individual file?

[DM1]

6 hours ago, Jack Fancy said:

Is there a quicker way to bulk save files or move files to new folders or do I have to move and save each individual file?

.There is no ‘quick’ way to move .afphoto files into Live Docs but you can select them all and move them to any ‘Folder’. Then just use Open to navigate to the folder to open a file. Opening a file creates a working copy in Live Docs. After Saving any edits the Live Doc file can be closed. You really don’t want/need 100’s of files in Live Docs view. That’s like having 100’s of tabs open in Safari.😄

[Jack Fancy]

1 hour ago, DM1 said:

.There is no ‘quick’ way to move .afphoto files into Live Docs but you can select them all and move them to any ‘Folder’. Then just use Open to navigate to the folder to open a file. Opening a file creates a working copy in Live Docs. After Saving any edits the Live Doc file can be closed. You really don’t want/need 100’s of files in Live Docs view. That’s like having 100’s of tabs open in Safari.😄

That’s good advice, I never realized that working with Designer 1… so I never manually saved these “live” documents… 600 files later… lesson learned. What’s the advantage of having “live” documents?

[Peter vB]

You're not the only one Jack.
I also had to move 600+ files into AP v2 and 400+ into AD v2. 
They call it "Live docs", but it's just a gallery and I have all files into the application again.
But what I did learn from this debacle is that now I also have backups of all files outside of the app and app folders.

 

[Paul Mudditt]

1 hour ago, Jack Fancy said:

That’s good advice, I never realized that working with Designer 1… so I never manually saved these “live” documents… 600 files later… lesson learned. What’s the advantage of having “live” documents?

Live documents have all their history saved so files grow very large internally, check under iPad storage to see how much the app is consuming !. Saving them off and closing them once completed without history dramatically reduces the storage requirements for files.

[MartinDotCom]

It's So confusing and 😫

I understand by using D2 need save to D1-files and move it to D2 folder. I did save it correctly and rename nicely. Once ready after an hour, I delete D1 APP. Stupidly, D2 and D1 folder has exactly the same name, so didn't move to there. After delete D1-App, all my files is gone, even not exists in my "Recently Deleted"-folder. All my work is for nothing deleted.

Stupid iPadOS, it can make multiple files/folders with exactly the same name. So If affinity make it Designer-2 something like that, ppl will not failed so easily. 😭

[Paul Mudditt]

On 12/4/2022 at 2:42 AM, MartinDotCom said:

It's So confusing and 😫

I understand by using D2 need save to D1-files and move it to D2 folder. I did save it correctly and rename nicely. Once ready after an hour, I delete D1 APP. Stupidly, D2 and D1 folder has exactly the same name, so didn't move to there. After delete D1-App, all my files is gone, even not exists in my "Recently Deleted"-folder. All my work is for nothing deleted.

Stupid iPadOS, it can make multiple files/folders with exactly the same name. So If affinity make it Designer-2 something like that, ppl will not failed so easily. 😭

You must save your files in an cloud folder and not the On my iPad folder as IOS deletes that folder when you deleted the app. You did not need to delete the app. V2 is a complete new app and lives quite happily with V1 remaining installed.

The changes in V2 to get rid of this problem and force good behaviour in storing your work in a folder structure you create as you would do on a desktop is very welcome. 

Have you checked whether you have an iCloud backup, you could try restoring your iPad before the next daily backup is taken !

[Jack Fancy]

After all that work of moving files, I now have the problem of not being able to open some files…

Thinking it’s a saved bug issue, I try to save a file that can’t be opened and the crashes… every time