szczemp Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 After upgrading to v2, the small icon on the thumbnail in the windows explorer next to the .afphoto files has disappeared. If I have turned off showing file extensions, I don't know which is a .afphoto project and which is a .jpg photo, because both thumbnails are the same. Is it an update or windows problem? Yesterday, before the update, the icons were still there. The same thing with .afdesign files. Rich313 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 Hi @szczemp, Thanks for your report! I can confirm this is a known issue which is logged with our devs for V2 - I'll be sure to 'bump' this report with your post now Rich313 and walt.farrell 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awakenedbyowls Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 Has this issue been fixed yet? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 I can confirm this issue is still logged with our developers to be resolved - however internal comments during this process seem to indicate that the .MSIX based installer may be the cause of this. Can you please confirm, are you using the .MSIX or .EXE versions of V2? If you wish to try the .EXE versions, you can find these at the below links by selecting Also Available : EXE below the main download button: Photo - https://store.serif.com/update/windows/photo/2/ Designer - https://store.serif.com/update/windows/designer/2/ Publisher - https://store.serif.com/update/windows/publisher/2/ I hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awakenedbyowls Posted February 17, 2023 Share Posted February 17, 2023 2 hours ago, Dan C said: I can confirm this issue is still logged with our developers to be resolved - however internal comments during this process seem to indicate that the .MSIX based installer may be the cause of this. Can you please confirm, are you using the .MSIX or .EXE versions of V2? If you wish to try the .EXE versions, you can find these at the below links by selecting Also Available : EXE below the main download button: Photo - https://store.serif.com/update/windows/photo/2/ Designer - https://store.serif.com/update/windows/designer/2/ Publisher - https://store.serif.com/update/windows/publisher/2/ I hope this helps! The main .MSIX version(s) I think - I had a look at some page before and it said the alternative versions were beta and I don't really want to risk my work flow on anything less tested than the current main version - I'm not really sure what the pros and cons of either are or really understand why the installation process for this seems to be different from everything else I've ever installed? Walt F has directed me to a temporary solution anyway (cheers) Just got used to the icon allowing me to easily distinguish between files - it's a minor thing walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenny0594 Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 I have just upgraded to V2 today and I am getting this issue which is highly annoying for me, what was your workaround by waltf @awakenedbyowls please as I dont see the reply from them. thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awakenedbyowls Posted February 18, 2023 Share Posted February 18, 2023 11 hours ago, jenny0594 said: I have just upgraded to V2 today and I am getting this issue which is highly annoying for me, what was your workaround by waltf @awakenedbyowls please as I dont see the reply from them. thank you. If you go into View in File Explorer and then tick File Name Extensions then it will display .afdesign or whatever after the file name below the icon Works until you end up (as I often do) with massive filenames: version 1 - version 2 etc... As long as none of these early bugs cause me to lose any work then I'm reasonably happy jenny0594 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 On 2/17/2023 at 7:33 PM, awakenedbyowls said: I had a look at some page before and it said the alternative versions were beta and I don't really want to risk my work flow on anything less tested than the current main version I can confirm that the .EXE versions at the above links are retail releases and have undergone the same testing as the .MSIX versions you have installed currently. On 2/17/2023 at 7:33 PM, awakenedbyowls said: I'm not really sure what the pros and cons of either are or really understand why the installation process for this seems to be different from everything else I've ever installed? The main differences are listed here - As for why the .MSIX installs using a different method than other applications, this is simply how .MSIX installers function and these are the preferred installer method according to Microsoft going forward. Many applications continue to use .EXE installers as these have been the de facto standard for installing since Windows DOS days (late 1970s, if I'm not mistaken) and I believe that MSIX is the next iteration of installer method on Windows, which have many pros and cons, as shown in the above post. I hope this clears things up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenny0594 Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 On 2/18/2023 at 12:17 PM, awakenedbyowls said: If you go into View in File Explorer and then tick File Name Extensions then it will display .afdesign or whatever after the file name below the icon Works until you end up (as I often do) with massive filenames: version 1 - version 2 etc... As long as none of these early bugs cause me to lose any work then I'm reasonably happy Thank you, I already have that done but this doesnt help me as I like to view files by looking at the large icon view so I can quickly see what design it is I am looking at so it is super frustrating for me. I hope there is a fix for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCorona Posted May 22, 2023 Share Posted May 22, 2023 screw it- it'll not get resolved...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted May 23, 2023 Share Posted May 23, 2023 Hi @PCorona, As above, this appears to be a difference in how Windows assigns default applications to MSIX installers, compared to traditional EXE installers. If you install the EXE version using the steps I've provided above, you should see these icons return. I hope this clears things up! jenny0594 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCorona Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 Dan C : not quite - installed EXE on desktop and nowI get this for some reason and that left file is a .psd file Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenny0594 Posted May 26, 2023 Share Posted May 26, 2023 On 5/23/2023 at 10:44 AM, Dan C said: Hi @PCorona, As above, this appears to be a difference in how Windows assigns default applications to MSIX installers, compared to traditional EXE installers. If you install the EXE version using the steps I've provided above, you should see these icons return. I hope this clears things up! Hi thank you for the link, I removed the current affinity designer 2 and downloaded the .exe version from your link and this has resolved the problem for me. Thank you very much, this is something that has been very annoying for me since I installed version 2 so it is amazing to get a fix for it 🙂 Dan C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan C Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 On 5/26/2023 at 5:59 PM, PCorona said: Dan C : not quite - installed EXE on desktop and nowI get this for some reason and that left file is a .psd file Thanks for the screenshot provided - it appears as though Affinity Publisher has been set as the default app for opening .PSD files through Windows, though this can be changed at any time. Please right-click on your PSD file and select Open With > Choose Another App in the menu that appears. In the dialog that is now shown, please tick Always use this app to open .PSD files, then select the application you want these files to be associated with and select OK. This will change the default app used to open PSD files in Windows, and therefore will change the icon shown for your PSD file. I hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCorona Posted June 9, 2023 Share Posted June 9, 2023 drank the KoolAid- said to h*** with the icons.....deleted and reinstalled MSIX versions and I'll live with the file name...... R C-R 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCorona Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 The more things change the more they stay the same......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PCorona Posted August 2 Share Posted August 2 so its something that will never change and the only resolution is to uninstall and reinstall .EXE? PITA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonny Sonny Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 Has this issue been fixed yet? Or installing the .exe version is the only solution? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 6 hours ago, Sonny Sonny said: Has this issue been fixed yet? Or installing the .exe version is the only solution? At this point, if it's important to you, uninstalling the MSIX version and installing the EXE/MSI version is your best approach. Sonny Sonny 1 Quote -- 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 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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