Affinity Photo 2.0.4, MacOS, is blocked when encrypted drive is not mounted

[marue]

Hello Affinity Team,

I experience the following behavior on MacOS when using files on an encrypted drive:

- work on a file on an encrypted drive, save

- close Affinity Photo

- unmount encrypted drive

- restart Affinity Photo

Now Affinity Photo forces MacOS to ask for the password of the encrypted drive. Canceling does not help, the dialog stays and asks for the password again and again and again. Affinity Photo will not start without entering the password.

I consider this a bug, or at least as very cumbersome flaw. In certain situations it can be a security breach to enter the password. In these situations Affinity Photo then becomes unusable. In other situations it is just not necessary to mount the drive, as the files on the drive are not required. And sometimes someone is working on a computer and doesn't have the password at hand - also pretty annoying.

Expected behavior would be: I click on "Cancel", the dialog shuts down and Affinity Photo starts without reference to the files on the unmounted drive.

Could you please report back on that issue? Is it known? Are there any plans to tackle it?

Kind regards,

Maru

[stokerg]

Hi @marue,

I believe you are running into another version of this bug, which has been fixed in the beta.  I don't currently have access to an encrypted drive, so I can't directly test this myself but if you'd like to sign up for the beta which you can do via here, I suspect you won't be able to replicate the issue in the beta.

 

[marue]

Hi Stokerg,

thank you for your quick reply. This really sounds like it is at least closely related.

I'm currently pretty tight on time (2 children below age 2), so I will not be able to run the beta myself. If it helps: In case you have MacOS available you can easily simulate an encrypted drive for testing by creating an encrypted image with the disk utility. These steps recreate the issue on my Mac:

- create an encrypted image, set a password

- mount it, enter the password

- save any file with Affinity Photo on the encrypted image

-  unmount the encrypted image

- close Affinity

- restart Affinity

and - voila - there you are.

Hope this helps.