Grey Bar on left side when switching to Designer Persona in Affinity Publisher

[randomnamebecausemineisuse]

I recently got a very annoying bug in Affinity Publisher. The program itself works just fine. I have installed all three of the Affinity programs (Photo, Designer, Publisher). This gives me the capability to switch between these programs within Publisher itself. What's happening now is, that when I want to use Designer and I'm thus switching to the Designer Persona, a grey bar appears on the left side of my screen, blocking all the tools (see photo). I always have to move the program window around to avoid this bar when I need the tools hidden by it, which is very annoying. Hope this bug can be fixed. 

(Problem is occurring every time, not just in that one file)

 

Version: 2 2.0.4

MacOS Monterey 12.5

16" MacBook Pro 64GB RAM

M1 Max Chip (hardware acceleration enabled)

[MikeTO]

I don't think this is going to fix it but please give this a try. Save your studio setup so you can get back to it. Then quit and restart Publisher and immediately press Ctrl. Choose just Reset Studio from the Window that appears which will launch Publisher with the studios back to their default position. Can you duplicate the problem with the studios restored? If so, it's something else and you can just re-load your saved studio setup but if it does solve it then rebuild your studio setup and save it as the default.

[Old Bruce]

23 minutes ago, MikeTO said:

Then quit and restart Publisher and immediately press Ctrl. Choose just Reset Studio

I only get this Reset to work if I have Control held down before I start Publisher/Photo/Designer. Starting and then immediately/as fast as I can/quickly holding down the Control key starts normally. Here on Mac OS 11.7

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

I only get this Reset to work if I have Control held down before I start Publisher/Photo/Designer. Starting and then immediately/as fast as I can/quickly holding down the Control key starts normally. Here on Mac OS 11.7

Really? Holding down Ctrl before clicking the app in Applications should show the left context menu and holding it down before clicking the dock icon should show the right context menu (with recents if there are recents and the app is running). 

[randomnamebecausemineisuse]

2 hours ago, MikeTO said:

I don't think this is going to fix it but please give this a try. Save your studio setup so you can get back to it. Then quit and restart Publisher and immediately press Ctrl. Choose just Reset Studio from the Window that appears which will launch Publisher with the studios back to their default position. Can you duplicate the problem with the studios restored? If so, it's something else and you can just re-load your saved studio setup but if it does solve it then rebuild your studio setup and save it as the default.

 

This actually worked! Thank you very much