B·Ware Posted April 13, 2023 Share Posted April 13, 2023 Affinity Designer 2 is displaying a spinning beachball on Save As and Open on MacOS 13.3.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeTO Posted April 14, 2023 Share Posted April 14, 2023 2 hours ago, B·Ware said: Affinity Designer 2 is displaying a spinning beachball on Save As and Open on MacOS 13.3.1 Hi, I'm unable to duplicate his on 13.3.1 with Designer 2.0.4 or 2.1 beta 1742. Have you tried the other apps? Have you tried a second restart in case there was an issue reconnecting a drive after installing the update? What drive is Designer likely defaulting to? You could also try pressing Ctrl immediately after starting Designer and then clearing user defaults. Good luck Quote Download a free manual for Publisher 2.3 from this forum - expanded 260-page PDF Affinity 2.3.1 for macOS Sonoma 14.3, MacBook Pro 14" (M1 Pro) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B·Ware Posted April 15, 2023 Author Share Posted April 15, 2023 I cleared the defaults, but all the Affinity apps go spinning beachball on Open from the New Document pane or app menu and on Save. The beachball goes away but nothing has opened or been saved. The apps are using the M1 iMac internal drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B·Ware Posted April 15, 2023 Author Share Posted April 15, 2023 Well. After a computer restart, it's working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B·Ware Posted April 15, 2023 Author Share Posted April 15, 2023 The Beachball returns after closing and attempting to open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B·Ware Posted April 15, 2023 Author Share Posted April 15, 2023 I disconnected all external drives and that seems to have fixed it. But who knows what will happen next? Why would a drive that not's in the mix affect the app open and save interface? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted April 15, 2023 Share Posted April 15, 2023 5 minutes ago, B·Ware said: Why would a drive that not's in the mix affect the app open and save interface? Perhaps you used a file or folder on that drive in a previous session. The Affinity applications remember previous folders and default to using them, often in unexpected ways, and perhaps the application was trying to access a drive that was not responding. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.3, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.3.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B·Ware Posted April 16, 2023 Author Share Posted April 16, 2023 One drive was showing up in a different position in the Finder "Locations" list. I changed its USB port and, for now, that's working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B·Ware Posted April 19, 2023 Author Share Posted April 19, 2023 My fix didn't last. How can I bless the computer so that Affinity software will save and export? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B·Ware Posted April 20, 2023 Author Share Posted April 20, 2023 OK. The problem was Dropbox. It needed to be updated to some new Library>CloudStorage folder scheme and was stuck in a file syncing loop unrelated to Affinity or anything I had been doing otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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