Affinity Photo 2 "Close All" command inconsistent behaviour

[MicheleBus]

Hi,

In my current projects I am using a lot of tabs, and at the end of one session, I like to use the "Close All" command because it's very quick.  I tried this in multiple projects and in the dialogue box sometimes I get the "close all" checkbox (that's what I want) and sometimes, using the same command, it doesn't appear, so I have to click and confirm "close" for each open tab.

Is this a bug, or there is something I am doing wrong?

I am using MasOS Monterey, Intel version.

Thanks!

 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Do you really switch between dark and light modes for the user interface, or is the first one perhaps from Photo V1 instead of V2?

[MicheleBus]

Thanks Walt.

No that change in colour is actually just the default windows translucency in macOS. In the light one, I most probably had a white image in the back that gave a whiter shade to the dialogue box. Both images are from V2.

[walt.farrell]

Ok.

How are you initiating the operation? Are you clicking the stoplight button on the document tab, or using the File command?

[MicheleBus]

I use the File command shortcut: Option + Command + W

[MikeTO]

Cmd+Opt+W calls the menu command, it's identical to choosing the command from the menu. Since nobody else has reported an intermittent problem with the new Close All feature in 2.1, that makes me wonder if it's something specific to your system and the only variable is the Option key. I'm wondering if the Opt key on your keyboard is starting to go.

One way to test it is to use the menu command exclusively for the next few days and see if the problem also occurs with the menu command. If not then it's the physical key on your keyboard. If you're a keyboard shortcut kind of person like me this would be tough to do so perhaps try changing the keyboard shortcut to something without the Option key. For example, if you never use Cmd+4 for 800% zoom you could use that shortcut for Close All. Then if you pressed Cmd+Opt+W nothing would happen and you'd remember that you have to use Cmd+4 for now.

Good luck

[Alfred]

55 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Do you really switch between dark and light modes for the user interface, or is the first one perhaps from Photo V1 instead of V2?

 The V2 icons have a dark border, the V1 icons don’t.

[Old Bruce]

Are you closing documents which need to be saved?

If I have several documents open some of which I have edited and one that I haven't edited then I will get the single option to save/don't save for the unedited document (with no checkbox) and the Apply to all check box for the ones I have edited.

[MicheleBus]

4 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Are you closing documents which need to be saved?

If I have several documents open some of which I have edited and one that I haven't edited then I will get the single option to save/don't save for the unedited document (with no checkbox) and the Apply to all check box for the ones I have edited.

 

Yes, I start working from templates most of the time, and I don't need to save them at the end (most of the time). And sometimes I don't edit some of them, so I think that's the problem. 

I guess an easy fix is to remember to edit all the open projects.

I'll do some experiments, thanks! 

 

 

[thomaso]

15 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I will get the single option to save/don't save for the unedited document

Any idea what needs to get saved in a unedited document?

I always wonder that undoing or sliding the History fully back to its start does trigger the Save? question and creates the modified "(M)" in a tab's file name … even if I was just selecting a page or object …

… whereas selecting a page and object but not undoing does not cause the Save question and not create the "(M)".

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, Old Bruce said:

If I have several documents open some of which I have edited and one that I haven't edited then I will get the single option to save/don't save for the unedited document (with no checkbox) and the Apply to all check box for the ones I have edited.

Same for me, so I assume it is working as intended.

[R C-R]

1 hour ago, thomaso said:

Any idea what needs to get saved in a unedited document?

I always wonder that undoing or sliding the History fully back to its start does trigger the Save? question and creates the modified "(M)" in a tab's file name … even if I was just selecting a page or object …

I think this is because if Save History with Document is enabled, then it does need to be resaved for those 'undone' steps to be included, & they just neglected to make an exception when it isn't enabled.

[thomaso]

5 minutes ago, R C-R said:

I think this is because if Save History with Document is enabled, then it does need to be resaved for those 'undone' steps to be included, & they just neglected to make an exception when it isn't enabled.

…while they made an exception when these selection steps ("Set current…") are NOT undone? – This appears double odd.

And, even more strange: Even if "Save History" has been activated already when the document got opened then not undoing the selection steps ("Set current…") does not trigger the Save question, and the Save command is greyed out.

I doubt "Save History" is a reason for /related to this behavior of requesting "Save?" … and rather assume an additional issue with "Save History".