Affinity Publisher 2.0.3 crashes on opening file [macOS 13.2 (22D49)]

[bhanquier]

Hi, 

The title says it (almost) all… 

I suspect an issue with some linked .afdesign files placed in Google Drive.

Attempts: 

• uninstalling/reinstalling Publisher, including deleting everything related to Publisher in ~/Library 
• flushing all caches 
• making all .afdesign files placed in Google Drive available offline 
• making a copy of the .afpub file and placing it on the desktop. 

No dice. 

You'll find attached the latest crash file. 

Thanks for any help. 

MacBookPro 2019, 1,4 GHz Intel Core i5 with 16 Go RAM). 

Affinity Publisher 2-2023-01-25-122048.ips

[MikeTO]

Hi, there's a known issue with linked documents where the documents such as afdesign, pdf, and svg have been updated after being placed.

The best advice I can offer is to rename the folder(s) containing the linked documents. Open your Publisher document - it should open now that it can't find them. Do not re-link them or open the Resource Manager - opening the Resource Manager will crash.

Now go to the pages those documents are on and replace the documents with the same ones. Once you've done that, save the document (I'd use a new name) and you should be good to go.

If the documents aren't huge, you might want to embed them until this is fixed. Or if you want to keep them external then keep Publisher and this document open when updating the documents in Designer.

Cheers

[bhanquier]

And MikeTO to the rescue once again!

It worked, and I could get my document back on track. 

Thanks a bunch Mike, you're a lifesaver.

[MikeTO]

That's great, I'm glad it worked for you.

Cheers