richsw54 Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 Just purchased Affinity Photo and have one question. It take around 40 seconds to start up. Photoshop and Pixelmator take less than 10 seconds. Using a late '13 Macbook Pro and El Capitan. Is this normal? Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted February 10, 2016 Staff Share Posted February 10, 2016 Hi Richard, Welcome to Affinity Forums :) No. Can you please press and hold ⌃(ctrl) while launching Affinity Photo then select Clear from the dialog that will appear? This will reset the app. Does it still takes that time to launch after the reset? amyas 1 Quote A Guide to Learning Affinity Software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 For reference, I'm using El Capitan version 10.11.3 running on a bottom-of-the-line 2012 27" iMac (2.9 GHz Intel Core i5 CPU, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 512 MB GPU, & 1 TB conventional hard drive). Sometimes AP takes up to 20 seconds or so to launch; other times only 3-6 seconds. As I understand it, this depends in large part on how much OS X has kept in inactive memory from the last use of AP. I don't have Photoshop installed on my iMac but an old 9.x version of Photoshop Elements never takes less than about 15 seconds to launch, most of it devoted to loading plugins, validating fonts, & so on. For both apps this is the time to launch to an empty workspace, not opening a document when the app isn't already running. Once running, AP takes much less time to open a native .afphoto or .afdesign document than PSE does a native .psd document of similar size & complexity. The same is true for a tif, jpeg, gif or any other document not "native" to either app. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.2 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richsw54 Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 MEB Your tip worked perfectly. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oktopus Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 On my Mac pro 5.1 (EC 10.11.3) with a SSD New and empty: AP is under 4sec. AD about 3sec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapoSimply Posted July 17, 2019 Share Posted July 17, 2019 Before it took 25 sec for AP to startup on iMac 5K 4GHz i7 16GB. Then disabled Unknown Plugins and removed path /Application from Plugin Search Folders (just left path to a specific plugins folder). Now it starts up in 3 sec. Attaching screenshot of the Plugins Preferences. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robby Berman Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 How do you launch while holding down ctrl? It opens a contextual menu if you do that on the Mac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyas Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 @Robby Berman Launch it first, then quickly hold down Control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lepr Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 26 minutes ago, Robby Berman said: How do you launch while holding down ctrl? It opens a contextual menu if you do that on the Mac. Continue holding down ctrl while you pick "Open" from that contextual menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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