Where is affinity photo2 installed on Win11?

[milo42]

Affinity photo2 for Windows has some new type installer and I can't find where its installed the program (plus I don't know what the exe is called either to search for it) it isn't in program files anybody know where the default install location is?

[v_kyr]

See the above thread for exe file locations.

Also generally take a look into ...

• Frequently Asked Questions about V2 software

... where such things are commonly answered in a FAQ manner!

[walt.farrell]

18 minutes ago, milo42 said:

Affinity photo2 for Windows has some new type installer and I can't find where its installed the program (plus I don't know what the exe is called either to search for it) it isn't in program files anybody know where the default install location is?

If you need to know, then perhaps you should install using the alternate EXE installer rather than the standard MSIX installer. Both are available from your Affinity Store account if you purchased from Serif. But before installing the EXE version it's best to uninstall the MSIX version to avoid confusion.

[milo42]

walt.farrell Thanks, when I installed the MSI installed wasnt available, I want ot know the location so I can add affinity photo as an external editor in Lightroom to smooth my 360 photo editing workflow.

v_kyr Thanks for the pointer just what I was looking for.

[Axiom_DeSigns]

so I just had this issue trying to add Affinity apps to ACDSEE as external editors - ACDSEE being the DAM that Affinity apparently doesn't have an option for.

I managed to sort of find the install paths:
C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

But the MSIX installer doesn't add anything to "Program Files" and as a result, ACDSEE cannot use or open them
I'll try the EXE variant instead as suggested and see what happens there.

[walt.farrell]

10 minutes ago, Axiom_DeSigns said:

I managed to sort of find the install paths:
C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

But the MSIX installer doesn't add anything to "Program Files" and as a result, ACDSEE cannot use or open them

In that case, ACDSee is apparently deficient (along with some other applications) in not properly supporting Windows Store apps and MSIX-based apps (specifically, Windows App Execution Aliases). You might point that out to them

But yes, using the EXE/MSI-based version should resolve it for you.

[Axiom_DeSigns]

2 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

In that case, ACDSee is apparently deficient (along with some other applications) in not properly supporting Windows Store apps and MSIX-based apps (specifically, Windows App Execution Aliases). You might point that out to them

But yes, using the EXE/MSI-based version should resolve it for you.

I agree Walt - and I'll post a note over on their forums about it, but at least we have a solution by reverting to "old school" installers
*small shout out to the Dev team for offering the EXE option*