Keith Williams Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Please advise why when I have just down loaded the Affinity 2 package that the icons for Photo, Publisher and Design are shown as separate little box icons? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 Sorry, Keith, but I don't understand the question. You have 3 applications, and each has its own icon. If that doesn't explain it, can you provide a screenshot to illustrate the question better? 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...
Keith Williams Posted December 9, 2022 Author Share Posted December 9, 2022 Good evening Walt, thank you for your prompt reply, I have tried a screen shot but unfortunately it did not work? However, the icons for the 3 Affinity applications are not the normal ones, the ones I have depict what looks like a little carboard box and the files are MS1X rather than the normal application files? When I press any of the 3 icons to load the application a box pops up indicating that the application is already installed and contains 2 questions - 1) Do I wish to re-load the application or 2) Do I want to Launch it? I have to press the launch question to use the app. which appears not normal to me! I hope that this makes it a little clearer! Regards, Keith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 It sounds like you're trying to run the MSIX again. But you've already installed it, so you need to use the Windows Start menu, where you'll find Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2, and Affinity Publisher 2. Yes, they are Windows Applications, but Serif have agreed to provide MSI-based installers as part of the 2.0.3 beta test cycle soon. You can also get icons for the applications, if you want. Please see https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/167826-how-do-i-create-a-desktop-shortcut-for-affinity-v2-apps/ 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...
Keith Williams Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 Good morning Walt, very many thanks for your prompt and very informative reply, your reply has put me in an excellent position to solve my query. To be honest I am not a computer technical person and I have never heard of "MSIX" files which of course threw me, perhaps affinity should provide an explanation of what to expect when down loading their software for users such as me? However, once again many thanks for your help which is very much appreciated. Keith. walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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