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Jung

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I putmy Affinity ID and password, but it keeps asking me to 'Please try again in a moment'. I am not able to login since four days ago. The internet is connected, and I also tried launching the app as admin, but no luck. Any suggestion?

 

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If you have any of the other V2 apps running, close them and see if it works then.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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On 12/25/2022 at 3:38 PM, walt.farrell said:

If you have any of the other V2 apps running, close them and see if it works then.

That worked... but I wasted 30 minutes getting to this point. Seriously, with a suite of 3 programs, it's surprising the developers couldn't imagine this situation wouldn't be a common occurrence. In my case, the "Please try again in a moment" was the only feedback I received. I sure hope Serif fixes this... or at least provides a better error message.

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On 12/25/2022 at 10:38 PM, walt.farrell said:

If you have any of the other V2 apps running, close them and see if it works then.

I did this, and now I have to activate Affinity Photo again, which I can't unless I close Designer. After Activating Photo again, I have to activate Designer again and close Photo to do that.....and.so.on.

Looks like I can only have one of these apps activated at a time.

Seriously, Serif?!

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1 hour ago, flyingcarrot said:

Looks like I can only have one of these apps activated at a time.

Seriously, Serif?!

Do you really think, that this is standard apps behavior? How would "Edit in..." commands and Person sharing via StudioLink work without registering all applications?

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2 hours ago, flyingcarrot said:

I did this, and now I have to activate Affinity Photo again, which I can't unless I close Designer. After Activating Photo again, I have to activate Designer again and close Photo to do that.....and.so.on.

Looks like I can only have one of these apps activated at a time.

Seriously, Serif?!

That sounds like you have a mixture of applications, where one was installed using the MSIX installer and one was installed using the EXE installer. You can't do that. They must all be installed using the same kind of installer; all using the MSIX installer or all using the EXE installer. 

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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Hello,

 

I solved this issue deleting the old affinity folder in Roaming Files on windows.

The path is: "C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Roaming\Affinity

I moved the folder to desktop

I reinstalled the Affinity software and when asked me the login works without error.

Finally the folder that i moved to desktop called "Affinity" i deleted.

I hope this can be useful.

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On 7/28/2023 at 1:07 PM, walt.farrell said:

That sounds like you have a mixture of applications, where one was installed using the MSIX installer and one was installed using the EXE installer. You can't do that. They must all be installed using the same kind of installer; all using the MSIX installer or all using the EXE installer. 

Thanks. That did solve the problem. I really don't understand why Serif offers two different installers that can lead to anannoying issue like this 🙄

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2 minutes ago, flyingcarrot said:

I really don't understand why Serif offers two different installers that can lead to anannoying issue like this

At the beginning of V2 rollout, they offered only MSIX as a safer, simpler, more modern and more reliable approach. Many users complained, due to complications (many, but not all, from 3rd-party applications) that Serif had not considered adequately, so Serif relented and also offered the EXE-based installers again. So now there are two.

-- Walt
Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases
PC:
    Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 

    Laptop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU.
iPad:  iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

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On 12/25/2022 at 9:02 PM, Jung said:

I putmy Affinity ID and password, but it keeps asking me to 'Please try again in a moment'. I am not able to login since four days ago. The internet is connected, and I also tried launching the app as admin, but no luck. Any suggestion?

 

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In case anyone finds it helpful: I just experienced the same thing on Windows 11 with V 2.4, after using it for weeks - which is to say I was already logged in so it shouldn't even be asking.

Anyway, it turns out that a stalled instance of Affinity Photo was running in the background. Opening Task Manager and killing the AF instance with End Task, was all I needed to do for the suite to work correctly again.

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