Save files outside Affinity sandbox en mass

[Affinity Rat]

I have a ADez project with 256 files in it and I need to reload the app, anyway to do this en mass?
 

When I first got ADez I left files in a project, now I need to save them outside and reload ADez, sny painless way to do this?

I know better now not to leave files in the sandbox, but this doesnt help with the >300 files already there.

Anyway to automate this action.

Thanx

[walt.farrell]

No, it is purely a manual action.

Don't forget to save them somewhere outside of the Affinity Designer folder in "on my iPad", as that one will be removed if you delete the app, too.

[Affinity Rat]

Thanx Walt thats what I suspected. No fun, painful lesson. So given this memory prob why doesnt Affiinty give the option to set the default directory outside the sandbox.

I presume the answer lies in protected possibly more stable storage, however from users here, it would seem the the cons far out weigh the benefits, whatever they are!

 

 

[walt.farrell]

13 minutes ago, Affinity Rat said:

So given this memory prob why doesnt Affiinty give the option to set the default directory outside the sandbox.

It's probably a combination of stability and performance. But only the designers at Serif could really answer that.

[Affinity Rat]

If I was using the iCloud with ADez included, it would be any easier would it? I dont have a good feel what what the cloud actually does when the app is set to use the cloud.

 

[walt.farrell]

Sandbox data is only in the Sandbox.

If you want it someplace else you need to Save it there. Note that Projects are only in the Sandbox. The file system only iknows about files and folders.

[Affinity Rat]

So what does this do then?

[Bryan Rieger]

44 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Sandbox data is only in the Sandbox.

If you want it someplace else you need to Save it there. Note that Projects are only in the Sandbox. The file system only iknows about files and folders.

So, what are documents then? Shouldn't they be saved automatically to iCloud? Are projects really not just folders of documents? Semantics aside, the way Affinity on iPadOS communicates the location and state of a document (ahem file) is horrid. The fact that you have to select 'Save as…' in the hamburger menu within the Live Docs view to actually save your file is crazy, but then if you go to close it, it asks you if you want to close without saving, even if you just saved it.. It also doesn't say if or where it's saved to, and when.

Also, there is no concept of 'sandbox' in the Affinity apps — there's the 'Live Docs' tab. The term sandbox is only meaningful if you happen to browse the Apple Developer docs.

[Affinity Rat]

Funny I keep turning icloud off for Affinity Apps but everytime I reinstall one app they are all turned back on, even the ones not reinstalled.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Affinity Rat said:

So what does this do then?

I have no idea. Perhaps someone else will know.

[Affinity Rat]

16 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I have no idea. Perhaps someone else will know.

That makes two of us 🙂 but Affinity seem to insist on it being activated.