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How to go back to V1 after I saved the file to V2 (Publisher)


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I need to go back to V1 (from V2). There are too many bugs I cannot cope with.
But I am not able to load in my work back into V1. I have days of work that needs to go back to V1. 

How do I get my files back?

Thanks for advising me

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Once a file is saved in V2 it cannot be opened in V1 -- IOW, there is no backwards compatibility.

If you do not have a V1 backup somewhere, all you can do if you still have both installed is to open the file in V2 & copy its contents to a new file in V1. This may not work for all of the V2 contents.

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Just now, R C-R said:

Once a file is saved in V2 it cannot be opened in V1 -- IOW, there is no backwards compatibility.

What you mean is that there is no forward compatibility. Backwards compatibility would be a newer version of the software being able to read files saved with older versions, and this is perfectly possible in Affinity V2.

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3 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

What you mean is that there is no forward compatibility. Backwards compatibility would be a newer version of the software being able to read files saved with older versions, and this is perfectly possible in Affinity V2.

You are using the terms backward to how I have always used them, and always heard them used :) 

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1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

You are using the terms backward to how I have always used them, and always heard them used :) 

Same for me. Maybe it is different when translated between English & German? 

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Thinking about it … it probably depends on whether you look at the file or at the application – doesn't it? I mean, even if a software is forward compatible being able to read a file from a newer version, doesn't that mean that the very same file is backwards compatible if it can be read by said older software version? I am tired and my head refuses any logical conclusion. 🤯 😉

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5 minutes ago, kaffeeundsalz said:

I am tired and my head refuses any logical conclusion.

It's simple: a file saved in V2 is not backwards compatible with V1. IOW, V1 is not forward compatible with V2.

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It's not complicated unless you try to make it so. If it helps just think about the compatibility being one-way, only from older to newer.

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8 hours ago, HAV said:

I need to go back to V1 (from V2). There are too many bugs I cannot cope with.
But I am not able to load in my work back into V1. I have days of work that needs to go back to V1. 

How do I get my files back?

Thanks for advising me

You can export to PDF in V2 and open that in V1

Not perfect but there is no way to open a V2 document in V1 directly

 

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