AuthorAuthor Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 Hi, and sorry that this is not a features question! Where, physically, is Designer 2.1 installed on my drives? I'm desperately short of space on my drive C, and while installing this version, I noted that it didn't give me an option as to where I wanted Designer installed. I assume it's drive C, my primary drive, but I cannot locate it! Have I taken too many stupid pills, or is there a way to define the destination upon install and redirect it? Manyh thanks in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 If you have been using the standard MSIX installers, then Windows has installed it in a very hidden folder without giving you any options. You might be able to tell Windows to Move it to a different drive, and that might work (or it might not). You can also consider uninstalling it, and then downloading the EXE (MSI) installer from the Affinity Store website, which will give you a choice of where to install. Note, too, that there is a significant amount of user data stored on C still, unless you also move that. And how you move that depends on whether you're using the MSIX or EXE version, once you have 2.1 (it was different in 2.0). Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 See: ... and so on! Pšenda and Patrick Connor 1 1 Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuthorAuthor Posted May 25, 2023 Author Share Posted May 25, 2023 3 hours ago, walt.farrell said: If you have been using the standard MSIX installers, then Windows has installed it in a very hidden folder without giving you any options. You might be able to tell Windows to Move it to a different drive, and that might work (or it might not). You can also consider uninstalling it, and then downloading the EXE (MSI) installer from the Affinity Store website, which will give you a choice of where to install. Note, too, that there is a significant amount of user data stored on C still, unless you also move that. And how you move that depends on whether you're using the MSIX or EXE version, once you have 2.1 (it was different in 2.0). Hi, and thank you for how fast you replied. And I'm a little less sheepish seeing that I'm not the only one to ask about enabling a choice of install locations, based on using the msi installer. But I don't see one available on the downloads page in my account. Am I looking in the wrong place? TIA, Gary walt.farrell 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v_kyr Posted May 25, 2023 Share Posted May 25, 2023 See at the bottom of the page where it says "-> Looking for Windows MSI installers? ": https://store.serif.com/en-gb/update/universal-licence/ See alternatively ... https://store.serif.com/en-gb/update/windows/photo/2/ https://store.serif.com/en-gb/update/windows/designer/2/ https://store.serif.com/en-gb/update/windows/publisher/2/ ... and there on each page always "Also available as EXE ..." ... Quote ☛ Affinity Designer 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Photo 1.10.8 ◆ Affinity Publisher 1.10.8 ◆ OSX El Capitan ☛ Affinity V2.3 apps ◆ MacOS Sonoma 14.2 ◆ iPad OS 17.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuthorAuthor Posted May 25, 2023 Author Share Posted May 25, 2023 Thanks, you v_kyr. Worked a treat. I'm only sorry I'm not as quick to adapt as I used to be. I'm anal and need to have an EXE file backed up locally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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