Missing Resources - Windows & Mac

[Joe Clifford]

Hi,

We're using Affinity Publisher in the Team and in order to work collaboratively and share files we use OneDrive for business. It's been working great, with all files always kept on the machine so there's a local copy of everything. However, we now have a mixture of Mac OS & Windows devices being used and the Mac seems unable to locate any resources. We re-link them all, save it etc but as soon as an edit is made from a windows machine it fails to find them again as the path always starts at C://. The Windows machine seems to have no problem in working backwards to find the location. 

Is there any work around, or ideas in how to resolve this? I know we can embed the files locally but that will mean we have large files and it's a waste of space. 

Any help you can offer would be great!

Thank you

Joe

 

[walt.farrell]

How are your files organized on disk?

Try: putting your .afpub file in a directory, and in that directory create another folder there for your images, and put the images in that second folder.

[Joe Clifford]

On 11/22/2022 at 1:38 PM, walt.farrell said:

How are your files organized on disk?

Try: putting your .afpub file in a directory, and in that directory create another folder there for your images, and put the images in that second folder.

Hey Walt,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. 

All the photos sit in a central ‘assets’ folder. Within the assets parent folder sits a folder for individual for project areas and within those sits the individual projects and other documents relating to them.

Its odd. If we open the file on the Mac, it tells us that resources are missing. We then go through and locate them all. Save it. I then open the file on my windows machine and it opens fine, with everything located automatically. The second I add a new photo and save it, then open that file on the Mac it has no clue where any resources are (not just the new one).

We want to avoid embedding all the images as some of these documents are 90 pages long and pretty image heavy. 
 

Any thoughts greatly appreciated

Thanks

Joe

[walt.farrell]

My only suggestions are to reorganize the directories/files as I mentioned above, as that's the way that the Affinity are (we're told) setup to use relative links rather than absolute links.

Beyond that: V2 has a new function to link the DropBox service to avoid this problem. It's described in the Help: https://affinity.help/publisher2ipad/en-US.lproj/pages/Media/linkedServices.html

And that is automatic for iCloud users.