How to use Affinity with my image viewer?

[johnjohn]

This used to be easy: I am used to use XNView as image viewer. From there I could right click an image and choose from a couple of options which software to use for opening and working with the image. The links to Affinity 1 versions are still there, but of course they do not work anymore. How on Earth can I replace them with the links to Affinity 2 versions?

[RichardMH]

 

[johnjohn]

Thanks for the advice. This is an example of how to make easy things difficult and time-consuming.

By the way, haven't found a solution to my problem yet, someone posted the directory where affinity software should be intalled, but no, not on my computer. Received a message from a forum administrator I should read the FAQs, which I did before I posted my question here - but I admit not every single post, I just quit reading after an hour. It took me 5 seconds to add Affinity Photo 1 to XNView. After one hour of searching for a solution I still have not linked AF to XN. I guess I rather check the photos in XNView, then open AP and search the directory of the image from there, far easier and faster than this.

[RichardMH]

1 hour ago, johnjohn said:

Thanks for the advice. This is an example of how to make easy things difficult and time-consuming.

By the way, haven't found a solution to my problem yet, someone posted the directory where affinity software should be intalled, but no, not on my computer. Received a message from a forum administrator I should read the FAQs, which I did before I posted my question here - but I admit not every single post, I just quit reading after an hour. It took me 5 seconds to add Affinity Photo 1 to XNView. After one hour of searching for a solution I still have not linked AF to XN. I guess I rather check the photos in XNView, then open AP and search the directory of the image from there, far easier and faster than this.

Doesn't the launcher work? 

I've looked in the Xnview forums and they don't seem to have a solution. (It is their problem)

Other solution is to "Open in file explorer", right click on the image file and then Open with Affinity Photo 2

[RichardMH]

Had another look at XnView. If you have Affinity Photo as the default app for your raw files, Open with Associated Program or pressing F3will open a raw in AP.

[PedroOfOz]

What does work is @walt.farrell.bat file

C&P the following In a text editor 

start /b affinityphoto2.exe %1
exit

and save it as 

LaunchAffinityPhoto2.bat

Set a path in XnViewMP to where you've stored the .bat file. (ie Tools > Open With > Configure Programs)

Walt was the first in the forum to offer a workabout to AP2 MSIX issues and it just so happens it's perfect for XnViewMP! 

Note: Colour and italics for highlighting purposes only

 

[walt.farrell]

The aflaunch approach that Mark Ingram provided should work, too. 

[PedroOfOz]

Thanks Walt. I've not tried Mark's solution as your .bat file worked.

With Raw Therapee (and that includes the just released v5.9) the official Appdata location needs to be used as RT requires an .exe*

C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps\AffinityPhoto2.exe 

*for others as you, of course, are aware of this

[Fuggle]

I use Faststone Image viewer, opens all types of files and connects to Affinity