jeathray Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 When i saved my first Designer file to icloud, It appeared as "other docs" in icloud storage, as a loose file in icloud.com. When i checked back later on icloud.com there was now an Afffinity Designer folder with the loose file outside of it. I dragged the file into the folder and when I left icloud.com and entered icloud documents under system prefs Affinity Designer had changed to an Affinity Photo even though I don't own it. When I checked back later it had changed back to Affinity Designer. Has anybody else experienced these icloud delayed reactions to saved files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barninga Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 i don't use icloud. however i've read that the two file format are identical (https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/5202-will-you-be-able-to-edit-designer-files-in-photo-or-visa-versa/), so if the system makes some deeper check rather that stopping at the extension, a strange behavior like the one you experienced looks possible (though it shouldn't be). Quote take care, stefano Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeathray Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 When I checked back later I noticed that it had changed back to Affinity Designer in icloud docs. I think there is a substantial delay between the time you perform an action in icloud and when it actually occurs and is displayed on your screen. Must be put in some kind of queue in icloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Ben Posted January 29, 2016 Staff Share Posted January 29, 2016 When testing our iCloud support, I found that the updates can be very temperamental. Sometimes they would be instant, sometimes they could take minutes or longer, and sometimes they just didn't work at all. I even got into a situation where my two machines just stopped updating altogether. Occasionally they'd spring back into life if I gave them a nudge by creating a folder, or renaming a file in Finder, but mostly just completely failed to update. Consequently, I wouldn't recommend using iCloud as a reliable way to move your documents between machines while editing. I wrote the code to respond to version changes, but sometimes the changes never came through. jeathray 1 Quote SerifLabs team - Affinity Developer Software engineer - Photographer - Guitarist - Philosopher iMac 27" Retina 5K (Late 2015), 4.0GHz i7, AMD Radeon R9 M395 MacBook (Early 2015), 1.3GHz Core M, Intel HD 5300 iPad Pro 10.5", 256GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeathray Posted January 29, 2016 Author Share Posted January 29, 2016 Thanks, you've confirmed my suspicions about icloud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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