AP2 - Export - Destination Folder

[Grumpy Hec]

I pretty sure I know the answer to this but I may have missed something so here goes. 

Is there a way of making export default to using the source folder automatically rather than having to browse? 

The reason for asking is that I want to create a macro that a) saves in affinity format as normal and b) saves a full size JPG along with it to the same source folder. This, if you haven't guessed already, is to enable any DAM to see a decent size image, which reflects any work done in AP2, rather than just, at best, a small thumbnail in those DAMs which show even that.

 

cheers

 

Hec

[MikeTO]

Sadly no. I'm always saving and exporting things to the wrong folders. If there was a pinned thread for this feature request it would probably be almost as long as the footnotes thread was!

[Grumpy Hec]

Thanks Mike. Thought that was the case but worth asking just in case.

[carl123]

12 hours ago, Grumpy Hec said:

I want to create a macro that a) saves in affinity format as normal and b) saves a full size JPG along with it to the same source folder.

Macros cannot record saves or exports

But File > New Batch Job has the option "Save into Original Location"

So, you could process your already saved APhoto files to create JPG versions in the same folder

File > New Batch Job supports File filtering for the source files (e.g. *.afphoto) and will process sub-folders.

So, if your APhoto documents are all accessible within/beneath a top-level folder structure you will only need to run one batch job to process all your APhoto documents

[Grumpy Hec]

1 hour ago, carl123 said:

Macros cannot record saves or exports

But File > New Batch Job has the option "Save into Original Location"

So, you could process your already saved APhoto files to create JPG versions in the same folder

File > New Batch Job supports File filtering for the source files (e.g. *.afphoto) and will process sub-folders.

So, if your APhoto documents are all accessible within/beneath a top-level folder structure you will only need to run one batch job to process all your APhoto documents

Ah. That sounds worth exploring. Many, many thanks for that steer.