Image storage

[Sven Ironside]

I’ve lost the original image on my hard drive. Does Affinity Designer 2 store the image within its file I can retrieve, as it must be getting the information from somewhere? Thank you 😊 

[Komatös]

Hi  @Sven Ironside

I don't really understand the question. If you have an image file (pixel or vector) embedded in an Affinity Designer document, then you would have access to a copy. However, if you have only linked files, it looks bad, then only a data recovery program would help, which could recover the original file. However, this requires that no write operations were performed on the data carrier on which the original was stored.

[laurent32]

Maybe the image is still present in a cache somewhere ?

I think only the devs can answer that question…

[Dan C]

Hi @Sven Ironside,

Welcome to the Affinity Forums

With your document open in Affinity Designer 2, please navigate to Window > Resource Manager - is the image you want to recover listed here? If so, is this listed as 'Linked' or 'Embedded' please?

If the image does not appear in this list, can you please provide a screenshot of your Layers panel or a copy of your .afdesign file so I can investigate further?

Many thanks in advance!

[Sven Ironside]

13 hours ago, Komatös said:

Hi  @Sven Ironside

I don't really understand the question. If you have an image file (pixel or vector) embedded in an Affinity Designer document, then you would have access to a copy. However, if you have only linked files, it looks bad, then only a data recovery program would help, which could recover the original file. However, this requires that no write operations were performed on the data carrier on which the original was stored.

I had a photo which I dragged and dropped into affinity. The photo has since been deleted from my hard drive. The photo which I dragged and dropped is still in affinity. That is now my only copy. How do I get that photo onto my hard drive as a separate file?

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Sven Ironside said:

How do I get that photo onto my hard drive as a separate file?

When you follow the instructions provided by @Dan C just above your last post, what do you see?

[smadell]

Hi, @Sven Ironside. If you have the original photo as a layer in an Affinity Photo document, here’s what I would do. (1) Select that layer and choose Copy from the Edit menu. (2) Select New from Clipboard from the File menu. You should now have a second document, consisting of only the original photo. (3) With that new document open, choose Export… from the File menu. Choose to create a file on your hard drive, choosing a lossless format like TIFF or PNG.

You can close out the new document, as it has served its purpose. You should now have a new file on your hard drive, presumably equivalent to the original (since deleted) photo file.

[Sven Ironside]

On 3/31/2023 at 12:12 AM, smadell said:

Hi, @Sven Ironside. If you have the original photo as a layer in an Affinity Photo document, here’s what I would do. (1) Select that layer and choose Copy from the Edit menu. (2) Select New from Clipboard from the File menu. You should now have a second document, consisting of only the original photo. (3) With that new document open, choose Export… from the File menu. Choose to create a file on your hard drive, choosing a lossless format like TIFF or PNG.

You can close out the new document, as it has served its purpose. You should now have a new file on your hard drive, presumably equivalent to the original (since deleted) photo file.

Thank you everybody for replying. I have followed smadell and it’s worked. Thank you