Should I delete Affinity 1 after installing Affinity 2?

[Adrian Collett]

Having purchased and installed the excellent Affinity 2, I find that when I open Affinity 2 documents my laptop tries to open them in Affinity1, but telling me that a later version is available, even though I created the document in question in Affinity 2.  Do I need to remove the Affinity 1 software from my laptop, or would this lose me functionality?

[John Rostron]

I also found that installing V2 did not change the default program to open image files. Having changed the default program, all now opens as expected.

John

[Old Bruce]

41 minutes ago, Adrian Collett said:

Do I need to remove the Affinity 1 software from my laptop, or would this lose me functionality?

Here on Mac I used the Finder to change the Default for opening .afdesign files from Designer (version 1) to Designer 2. It was a simple File > Get Info and then in that Info window I chose Designer 2 in the Open With section and then hit the Change All button. An "are you sure you want to do this?" notice pops up and I say "yes".

 See how it is Designer for the default.

 Hit the Change All.. button.

 See how it is now Designer 2 for the default.

I would assume there is an equivalent with Windows.

[Adrian Collett]

Thank you John Rostron and Old Bruce.  The logic that you both mention is clear.  I need to change the default to Affinity 2, rather than Affinity 1, but I have no idea of how to do this, having spent a couple of hours trying to work it out.  I am using Windows 11 and have both Affinity 1 and Affinity 2 software on my laptop.  Any ideas?

[Alfred]

How to Set Your Default Apps on Windows 11

[Andreas Scherer]

15 hours ago, Adrian Collett said:

Do I need to remove the Affinity 1 software from my laptop, or would this lose me functionality?

You would loose the possibility to create work in V1 format, e.g., if you work with others that have not installed V2.

Personally, I have three sets of the Affinity suite installed on my Mac Mini. 🤓

[Adrian Collett]

Thank you!  All sorted.

[PastorJR]

This whole thing just seems unnatural to me.  The normal thing that occurs with software (most) is that when you upgrade versions, it upgrades everything in the OS, and the documents are backwards compatible. The way that Affinity did its upgrade seem to me that this should just work seamlessly "out of the box"! Having to go in and set all my defaults within in Win 11 seems...weird and not quite ready for primetime!

But to be clear...to use Affinity 2.2, on its own, CAN VERSION1 be uninstalled, or not? And if I do uninstall it, any work done, in any of the Affinity suite using version1, will no longer work? it this correct? 

Thanks in advance for the answer...

[Chills]

11 hours ago, PastorJR said:

This whole thing just seems unnatural to me.  The normal thing that occurs with software (most) is that when you upgrade versions, it upgrades everything in the OS, and the documents are backwards compatible. The way that Affinity did its upgrade seem to me that this should just work seamlessly "out of the box"! Having to go in and set all my defaults within in Win 11 seems...weird and not quite ready for primetime!

But to be clear...to use Affinity 2.2, on its own, CAN VERSION1 be uninstalled, or not? And if I do uninstall it, any work done, in any of the Affinity suite using version1, will no longer work? it this correct? 

Thanks in advance for the answer...

1 There is no "normal"  Some programs upgrade the app that is there and over write. Some install a new version that runs beside the original.  Many, like Affinity will update the version X.*  with sub versions but when the get to version Y.0 they install a new version beside the Version X.*

2 It is not "normal" for files to be backwards compatible.  Sometimes they are and some times not. Often when new features are added to a program the file formats they save change and they are not open-able by a previous version. Though the latest version will open the old versions. Sometimes they may even let you save in older formats. Affinity does not.

Points 1 and 2 have been true for as long as I have been using and writing software  IE over 45 years.

With Affinity they update the app with minor versions but install a new app on major version changes. This is quite common with many apps.  So Version X.1 will be updated to VersionX.1  but when it gets to Version Y.0 it will install a new version beside Version X.*

With Affinity  V2 it installs a new App beside V1 because the V2 files have a different format and can not be opened by V1 apps.  When you open your V1 files in V2 it will save them as V2 and you can't open them in V1 any more.   

So the question is: Are you working with people still using Affinity V1?  If not you can delete the V1 Apps.  I did.

Especially as the V2 Affinity are a LOT smaller than the V1 apps. You will reclaim a lot of HDD space.

 

 

 

[R C-R]

4 hours ago, Chills said:

Especially as the V2 Affinity are a LOT smaller than the V2 apps. You will reclaim a lot of HDD space.

I think there must be a typo in there somewhere because V2 can't be smaller than V2....

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, R C-R said:

I think there must be a typo in there somewhere because V2 can't be smaller than V2....

Windows reports the size incorrectly for the MSIX version of the Affinity apps, making them seem much smaller.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

Windows reports the size incorrectly for the MSIX version of the Affinity apps, making them seem much smaller.

I have seen that mentioned before in the forum but what I meant by typo (since corrected) was he wrote V2 when he meant V1.

That said, since the V2 apps can share across all 3 apps via linking some resources like brushes, assets, & so on, in practice V2 can require substantially less disk space, not for the app itself but for those shared items.

[SavedByLucifer]

On 9/21/2023 at 3:52 PM, Chills said:

Especially as the V2 Affinity are a LOT smaller than the V1 apps. You will reclaim a lot of HDD space.

 

For anyone else finding this thread via search results: My Photo V1 is 2.63GB. Just downloaded Photo V2 and its 2.77GB.

[GarryP]

9 hours ago, SavedByLucifer said:

For anyone else finding this thread via search results: My Photo V1 is 2.63GB. Just downloaded Photo V2 and its 2.77GB.

While each individual V2 installer is larger (for various reasons) than the each individual V1 installer, the individual installed V2 applications can be much smaller than the individual installed V1 applications because the V2 applications share a lot more of their ‘internals’ as a common installation.

Or, to put that another way, three installed V2 applications should take up less installed disk space than three V1 applications, when they have a similar amount of user-generated/installed content (brushes, assets, etc.).

This also mean that updating the V2 applications is quicker than updating the V1 applications as the ‘common stuff’ installed by the first update to a particular version of one application can be ‘passed over’ when updating the other applications to the same version.