Staff Ash Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 Apps: All Platforms: Windows and macOS For the convenience of Beta testers we have add an option in preferences to migrate all settings and content you have in your retail versions over the beta versions at anytime. You can find this under the beta menu of preferences. RichardMH, nwhit, MikeTO and 20 others 13 10 Quote Managing Director Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) / Apple M1 Max / 64GB / macOS 12.0.1 iPad Pro 11-inch 3rd Gen / iPadOS 16.2
MikeTO Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 Thank you! Tom Lachecki 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
debraspicher Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 You guys rock. Thank you for listening to us! Tom Lachecki 1 Quote
Staff Patrick Connor Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 Known issues HUB-295 - Copying of settings from Release to Beta isn't working on Windows Quote Patrick Connor Serif Europe Ltd Latest V2 releases on each platform Help make our apps better by joining our beta program! "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility lies in being superior to your previous self." W. L. Sheldon
MikeTO Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 This is minor but for brand new panels like Cross References, this migration feature sets them smaller than their minimum height and their position to something other than the default. Tom Lachecki 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
footeg Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 This option is greyed out in Affinity Photo. Windows 11 latest update. Do I need to have all the beta apps installed to see this option? Quote
Staff Pauls Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 @footeg - how is your release version installed (MSIX, Exe, Microsoft Store or direct from Affinity web site) Tom Lachecki 1 Quote
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 26 minutes ago, footeg said: This option is greyed out in Affinity Photo. Windows 11 latest update. Do I need to have all the beta apps installed to see this option? Theoretically it should be available if any v2 release app is installed; it doesn't have to be the same app. Quote
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 28 minutes ago, MikeTO said: This is minor but for brand new panels like Cross References, this migration feature sets them smaller than their minimum height and their position to something other than the default. Thanks Mike that's interesting; could be a data file got missed out. Which platform is this on? Quote
MikeTO Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 2 minutes ago, Tom Lachecki said: Thanks Mike that's interesting; could be a data file got missed out. Which platform is this on? macOS Ventura I also wound up in a situation where I couldn't open the cross ref panel - I'd choose it from the menu and it not only didn't appear, the menu item wasn't getting checked. I quit and then reloaded my 2.0.4 settings again a couple of times but couldn't duplicate this issue, but keep a watch out for it. Btw, now that you've kindly added this feature, it would be nice to go the other way, too. 🙂 I had Publisher 2.1 beta set up exactly as I wanted it with keyboard shortcuts for the new features and with a revised panel layout since I'll be using cross refs all the time and had to sacrifice something else to make room. The shortcuts are easy to migrate back to retail since I can export those but studio panels are a bit more work. We users are a needy bunch! Tom Lachecki 1 Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 We currently have no plans to implement it in reverse - this would be problematic in many cases. But I appreciate it would be useful! Frozen Death Knight and MikeTO 2 Quote
footeg Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 26 minutes ago, Pauls said: @footeg - how is your release version installed (MSIX, Exe, Microsoft Store or direct from Affinity web site) It was the unsandboxed exe download from my account on the Affinity web site as are all the release versions. Pauls 1 Quote
footeg Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 21 minutes ago, Tom Lachecki said: Theoretically it should be available if any v2 release app is installed; it doesn't have to be the same app. I have all the V2 release apps installed but only the Photo Beta release Tom. Quote
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 The unsandboxed app data paths have changed in the 2.1 beta so it's possible there's a bug here in not picking up the original 2.0 paths from an unsandboxed installation. debraspicher 1 Quote
footeg Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 That might explain it Tom, thanks. I see the screenshot from Ash's post is from the Mac version of the program. In the Windows version preferences have become settings & the screenshot with Beta Program selected looks somewhat different to the Windows screenshot. Quote
Gnobelix Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 Thanks for the function, it makes things a lot easier. Cheers Tom Lachecki 1 Quote Affinity Photo 2.6: Affinity Photo 1.10.6: Affinity Designer 2.6: Affinity Designer 1.10.6: Affinity Publisher 2.6: Affinity Publisher 1.10.6: Windows 11 Pro (Version 24H2 Build (26100.3476)
garrettm30 Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 This ought to be a good convenience to us to help beta testing. Thank you. However, I have found shortcuts do not seem to have been migrated when I clicked the “Copy Settings & Content From Release App” and allowed it to be restarted. Is that expected? I even tried twice. Curiously, the message that popped up stating “additional disk space required” showed a different amount. The first time, it showed around 176 Megabytes, while the second time it showed 916.8 MB. I am attaching an export of my Publisher 2 Release keyboard shortcuts that I hoped would be imported into the Publisher 2 beta. The shortcut where I noticed it is that the “home” key on the extended keyboard should have gone to the first page in the document according to my settings. Afterward, I imported the shortcuts in the older way, and here they were all copied as expected. Then, I tried the new setting migration again, and it replaced my shortcuts again (with I don’t know what) so that the home key no longer worked as I had defined. Could it be that the migration is importing from something different, like maybe one of the other Affinity apps? I am expecting Publisher 2 to Publisher 2 beta. AffinityShortcut.affshortcuts Quote
MikeTO Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 4 minutes ago, garrettm30 said: However, I have found shortcuts do not seem to have been migrated when I clicked the “Copy Settings & Content From Release App” and allowed it to be restarted. Is that expected? Shortcuts were copied for me on macOS. Quote Download a free PDF manual for Affinity Publisher 2.6 Download a quick reference chart for Affinity's Special Characters Affinity 2.6 for macOS Sequoia 15.3, MacBook Pro (M4 Pro) and iPad Air (M2)
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 11 minutes ago, garrettm30 said: Curiously, the message that popped up stating “additional disk space required” showed a different amount. The first time, it showed around 176 Megabytes, while the second time it showed 916.8 MB. The amount of space currently used by your beta content, which will be deleted, is taken into consideration for this calculation. Quote
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 13 minutes ago, garrettm30 said: However, I have found shortcuts do not seem to have been migrated when I clicked the “Copy Settings & Content From Release App” We'll check into this. Quote
md_germany Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 Does not seem to work for me. Could it be because my purchased version 2 is from the Mac App Store? Here the preferences are in >Library>Containers ... . Or should it still work? Quote iMac 27'' | Mac OS X Sequoia 15.1 | Affinity 2.5.5
debraspicher Posted March 16, 2023 Posted March 16, 2023 This is helpful for y'all as well because if we import everything instead of cherry-picking imports, it will offer as much opportunity to showcase bugs across various use cases. So while it's a bother, do add in as much portability as feasible. One of us will have some weird setup that will cause mayhem... no doubt... (edit) so while the convenience is very welcome, it makes our day-to-day usage in beta much more realistic... Quote
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 9 minutes ago, debraspicher said: This is helpful for y'all as well because if we import everything instead of cherry-picking imports, it will offer as much opportunity to showcase bugs across various use cases. So while it's a bother, do add in as much portability as feasible. One of us will have some weird setup that will cause mayhem... no doubt... (edit) so while the convenience is very welcome, it makes our day-to-day usage in beta much more realistic... Yes indeed Quote
Staff Tom Lachecki Posted March 16, 2023 Staff Posted March 16, 2023 27 minutes ago, md_berlin said: Does not seem to work for me. Could it be because my purchased version 2 is from the Mac App Store? Here the preferences are in >Library>Containers ... . Or should it still work? It should. Quote
Sonny Sonny Posted March 17, 2023 Posted March 17, 2023 Thanks, this is the setting i'm waiting for Quote
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