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Sounds like you are trying to Place a file, not Open it. 

If you have a Text Frame selected, or a Text tool active, the application may prefer text files, by design. There are some other situations where that may happen, which I think are recognized bugs but I don't recall the details. 

What application, release, and OS are you using?

-- 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5

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19 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

Sounds like you are trying to Place a file, not Open it. 

If you have a Text Frame selected, or a Text tool active, the application may prefer text files, by design. There are some other situations where that may happen, which I think are recognized bugs but I don't recall the details. 

What application, release, and OS are you using?

OK now, thank you. It can be confusing: when you place a file, it reflects 'open.' image.png.dc82337e98168d946cc1553829830ae6.png

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58 minutes ago, pcdlibrary said:

It can be confusing: when you place a file, it reflects 'open.'

That may be something the application can't control, if you're on Windows. What's important is how you initiated the operation.

-- 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 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5

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2 hours ago, pcdlibrary said:

It can be confusing: when you place a file, it reflects 'open.' 

Just guessing but I think that just means it is Windows' way of saying it is can open the file so Affinity can place it in the document.

All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.6 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7
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ll 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7

Posted
19 hours ago, pcdlibrary said:

... It can be confusing: when you place a file, it reflects 'open.'

I have often wondered why the convention wasn't 'Choose' when we place or import files in documents. This is for all applications on all OSes, not just Affinity ones.

Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 
Affinity Designer 2.6.0 | Affinity Photo 2.6.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.6.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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