Mikegrebo Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 When I try to save in My Pictures or My Documents or most other folders I get It will only save to a folder on my desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Do you have some kind of cloud service managing those folders, such as OneDrive, perhaps? 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 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 Or, perhaps, do you have Windows Controlled Folder Access enabled? In that case, you'll need to authorize the application to write into the protected folders. 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 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikegrebo Posted July 22, 2023 Author Share Posted July 22, 2023 Im not sure about Windows Controlled Folder Access never set anything up. Other programs don't have any issue and dont think Publisher does, just Photo and Designer. Why if I'm using "Save As" does it say "File not found"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikegrebo Posted July 22, 2023 Author Share Posted July 22, 2023 I just opened an old file. Turned on a layer and pressed SAVE and got Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 43 minutes ago, Mikegrebo said: Why if I'm using "Save As" does it say "File not found"? Because Saving can be a two-step process, where the solution first creates an empty file, then updates it. And if the creation fails, and this isn't noticed by the application, the update will fail with "file not found". 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 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikegrebo Posted July 22, 2023 Author Share Posted July 22, 2023 Is there a solution do you know? Trying reinstalling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 22, 2023 Share Posted July 22, 2023 9 minutes ago, Mikegrebo said: Trying reinstalling Probably won't help, unless you initially installed using the MSIX-based installers. In that case, you could uninstall all three applications, then download the EXE-based installers and reinstall using them. 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 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikegrebo Posted July 23, 2023 Author Share Posted July 23, 2023 just downloaded the exe's from my account. Unistalled them and reinstalled and no change. Is it something with windows 10? don't have a problem with other programs just Affinity. Seems it's My docs, Pictures, Music & Video folders that are a problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Komatös Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 7 hours ago, Mikegrebo said: Is there a solution do you know? Trying reinstalling https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/allow-an-app-to-access-controlled-folders-b5b6627a-b008-2ca2-7931-7e51e912b034 Quote MAC mini M4 | MacOS Sequoia 15.2 | 16 GB RAM | 256 GB SSD AMD Ryzen 7 5700X | INTEL Arc A770 LE 16 GB | 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz | Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (26100.2605) Affinity Suite V 2.5.7 & Beta 2.6 (latest) Interested in a free (selfhosted) PDF Solution? Have a look at Stirling PDF Ferengi Acquisition Rule No. 49: “A deal is a deal is a deal.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikegrebo Posted July 23, 2023 Author Share Posted July 23, 2023 Thank you. Will look at that shortly. For now, I think I may have sorted it. Tell me if I'm wrong if this possibly has nothing to do with it. I remember switching "Ransomware protection" in Defender after watching one of these "Things you didn't know" video. I've turned that off. I also noticed in the properties of one of the folders "Users" WMPNetworkSvc and a Microsoft page said to disable Network Sharing. Could it be one of these? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 23, 2023 Share Posted July 23, 2023 49 minutes ago, Mikegrebo said: Could it be one of these? Yes. 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 18.1.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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